Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Least Nine. The best answers to these needs lie across the Channel on the coast of France, from the Brittany peninsula to the Zuider Zee-a stretch ot 700 miles. At least nine ports fit the invasion requirements...
...Germans suddenly showed panicky signs of uncertainty over Denmark, where a wave of sabotage had broken out. From Sweden came reports (possibly Nazi-inspired) that the Wehrmacht had rushed in heavy reinforcements, seven infantry and two armored divisions, to bolster its position along the Danish Jutland peninsula...
...Orphans. On the peninsula of Bataan, now in full command, Skinny Wainwright butchered his horse to eat. Every day he visited the front line. His indifference to snipers became a legend...
...months and (Moscow said) more than 300,000 casualties were the price Germany paid for the history-encrusted Crimea and its naval bases. This week, with their supply lines severed by the Red drive across the Ukraine, the Germans had lost all but a tiny, blazing corner of the peninsula. With it went their claim to full control of the Black...
...defending troops (including many Rumanians) fell back swiftly, then broke. Soviet columns raced across the dusty mid-Crimean steppe at 50 miles a day - and better. Russian cavalry slashed at the flanks of retreating elements, cut into main bodies. Red tentacles curled and spread all over the Vermont-sized peninsula...