Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This might be as far as such an enemy would go if his main push were aimed at another sector. But if he intended to make this his main attack, he would have to go farther...
...point where the canal forked just before the two aqueducts. Then suddenly everything started at once-searchlights and all the anti-aircraft fire. It was unfortunate from our point of view, of course, that the enemy knew pretty well the direction from which we must attack. They had disposed their defenses so that they formed a sort of lane through which we had to pass. It seemed that they had strengthened these defenses a great deal since the first raids...
...invader could reach this general area by air (rather easily by hops from northern Britain to Iceland to Greenland), but to make use of it he would have to come by sea and establish a base there. To drive him out by a land attack might prove nearly as difficult as driving the Germans out of Norway for much of the terrain is almost equally barren and difficult. And from a base in Nova Scotia or Newfoundland he could harry the U. S. coast by sea and set about the steady business of softening up the U. S. and Canada...
...defensively faces east toward Europe. For if Germany displaces Britain as mistress of the seas, the U. S. will have lost its insurance policy against trouble in the Atlantic: the British fleet. Until the U. S. has a two-ocean fleet, it faces the danger of surprise attack in whichever ocean is undefended...
From the standpoint of a would-be invader from Europe, there are two obvious approaches for an attack on the U. S. One is the Caribbean islands (TIME, July 29). The other is eastern Canada. On the two following pages, TIME presents a map of eastern Canada and the North Atlantic coast. A mixing pot for villainous weather through the winter months, it is nevertheless an area in which military operations were carried on, winter and summer, before and during the Revolution and the War of 1812. Over its forested stretches commercial aircraft today operate regularly in summer, with more...