Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...islands off Germany's northeast coast, the roost of Lieut. Colonel Schumacher and his merry men was called Hillige ("Holy") Land by the ancient Frisians. Britain took it from Denmark and later traded it to Germany in exchange for Zanzibar. In 1914-18 Helgoland, as an advanced fleet base, fortified and protected by mine fields, gave Britain so much trouble that she afterwards insisted upon dismantling it. Her engineers spent three years blowing up its forts and moles. Britain suggested that the island, inhabited by 2,000 fisher folk, be turned into a bird sanctuary. By 1936, British complaints...
...Star both reported, upon their arrival in Rio de Janeiro last week, that they had been attacked unsuccessfully by submarines near the Canary Islands on their way out from England. The Canaries, off the African Coast, belong to Spain. British warships were reported looking there for a U-boat base or supply ship...
Waterville Valley, N. H.: good snow of sixteen inches. Four new inches over an old base...
...north fast modern bombers which did not bear the blue swastika of the Finnish Air Force bombed Liinahamari, Finnish port for Petsamo and now Russia's chief Arctic supply base. (There were unconfirmed and probably untrue reports that these planes had come from a British carrier in the Arctic Ocean.) One of the many Finnish ski patrols trying to cut the Leningrad-Murmansk railway made its way back to Finland after a nine-day trip and reported it had dynamited the railroad...
...Thirty-one Russian bombers raided the port of Turku, set fire to its 700-year-old castle, and the Finns retaliated with a remarkably successful raid on the Estonian island of Oesel in the Baltic, damaging the Russian air base. The three Finnish raiders were led by an Italian-made Savoia-Marchetti bomber...