Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Port Moresby, the Allied base on the south coast of New Guinea, is more than the United Nations' last pitiful foothold in the rich empire of the Indies: it is a thorn in the paw of the Jap, By repeated bombings he has tried to shake it out. Last week he committed himself to a new operation: he would pluck it out with the bayonet...
...much equipment at West Coast ports were being nastily diverted northward, how much reinforcement had been received from the battle-trained Royal Canadian Air Force, what preparations were afoot to dislodge the Japs. Plain to see was that, although Japan had paid a heavy price for its Aleutian foothold, if the U.S. intended to kick the Jap out, the U.S., too, would...
...appeared that the Jap attack on Dutch Harbor was more than a reconnaissance, more than an attempt to draw U.S. forces from some other point. It was an end in itself, an effort to seize a foothold for a later drive on the inner Aleutians, the Alaskan mainland and their invaluable bases for long-range U.S. air assaults on Japan-or for Japanese assault on the northwestern...
Scoop in New Caledonia. Meanwhile the United Nations, sure that if they could hold on to New Guinea's foothold they would have a jump-off place against the Jap, forestalled him in another south Pacific area. Washington announced that U.S. troops had landed in New Caledonia, a Free French island 700 miles east of Australia. It was a prize the Jap would have given a lot of men to take, for it lies athwart the lifeline from the U.S. to Down Under. It is also incredibly rich in minerals -No. 2 world producer of nickel...
Following Portuguese, Dutch and British pioneers, the French first got a foothold on the island at the end of the 17th Century. In the 19th Century they started developing one of the world's best natural harbors, Diégo-Suarez on Madagascar's northeast coast. Diégo-Suarez is defended by ancient 75 and 90 mm. guns; on the whole island there are only 5,000 troops, French and Senegalese, with a sprinkling of natives. Of the 40,000 whites, most of the small fry are anti-Vichy; most of the Government, Army and other important...