Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the war, tourist business fell away, then was halted altogether. Catalina lay in a restricted war zone with only one customer-the U.S. Government. By August 1942, the normal summer population of 10,000 had dwindled to 1,500. Last week, 600 newly arrived Maritime Service trainees completed Catalina's wartime conversion...
...surgical hospitals, "or those needing operations quickly, 2) evacuation hospitals, for nonsurgical cases and movable surgical cases or 3) convalescent hospitals, for men who will soon be able to return to combat. Men needing longer, more special care are taken still farther away to general hospitals beyond the combat zone...
...Fesler, who tutored the visitors, had his charges well grounded in the fundamentals of the court game, and when they discovered at the outset the nature of the Crimson's zone defense, they proceeded to pierce it in the best classic tradition...
...Compiegne. Because of "treachery" on the part of high officers of the French armed forces, the Führer wrote, he had ordered the demobilization of the remaining units of Vichy's Army and Navy. The great naval base of Toulon, last remaining bit of the free zone, was to be occupied, the warships stationed there taken or "annihilated" to prevent their escape to the Allies. Control of all France would pass into the hands of Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, Commander of German armed forces in Occupied France and the Low Countries. The letter -many pages...
...Zone of Quiet...