Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trouble at Fondouk. The Fondouk action afforded a sharp comparison between British and U.S. troops. The British were assigned to clear the heights to the left of the pass leading to Fondouk, the U.S. troops the heights to the right. These were important preliminaries to getting through to the coastal plain where Kairouan and perhaps some of Rommel's retreating strength could be assaulted. When the British troops reached their first objective at 7:30 the first morning, the U.S. troops had not begun to move. All day the British worked their way efficiently along their ridges...
...Bulgarian divisions for the defense of the Black and Aegean Sea coasts; 2) five additional Bulgarian divisions to replace an equal number of Germans in Serbia, thus easing Hitler's critical war manpower situation; 3) curfews, civilian evacuations and other extraordinary measures in Bulgaria's coastal areas. The Germans apparently expected an invasion through Bulgaria into middle Europe. Boris also understood the possibility. Bulgarians were asked "to endure with patience and calmness the trials about to be faced...
...Britain's Herbert Morrison, Minister of Home Security, designated new, extensive coastal strips in England and Scotland which might be banned to civilian visitors at a moment's notice, possibly an indication that the Allied blow-when it came-would fall in the north rather than the south. "The time has come," said Morrison, "when the question of access to coastal areas must be considered . . . from the point of view of the use of this country as a base for offensive operations against the enemy...
Worst off, perhaps, were the pilots who patrolled Britain's coastal waters and hunted U-boats in ancient de Haviland training planes. They felt safer in the daylight, because when they flew home at dusk they could clearly see their eight-cylinder engine becoming red hot. When flown into a wind of more than 50 m.p.h. velocity, the de Haviland "would float sedately backward, its propeller thrashing the air with undiminished enthusiasm." Conveniently, the de Haviland not only landed as gently as "an old hen settling on her eggs," but also floated "like a balloon" on the surface...
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA--American forces have smashed ahead six miles in southern Tunisia, developing a direct threat to the now Nazi coastal defense line while France-British troops have broken through to the north coast and captured Cap Serrat, it was revealed tonight...