Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brusquely they issued an ultimatum demanding air and naval stations in French Indo-China and the right to transport more troops across the peninsula for a backdoor attack on China. There were rumors that they wanted to subdivide the country into a northern, Japanese-controlled state, a central buffer, and a southern, French-controlled section...
...recently made to bristle with R. A. F. land ing fields (military and naval airfields indicated by red and white windsocks, commercial airfields by blue and white), would probably have to be left until later; but in any case it is on the wrong side of the peninsula for naval action...
...tacitly understood boundaries of Greater East Asia include Japan, Manchukuo, Inner Mongolia, China, French Indo-China, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, The Netherlands East Indies. The next step, about which many young Japanese speak frankly, is to delete the word East: establish Japanese hegemony over Greater Asia, meaning the Philippines, Burma, India, Australia. The strategic problem of attaining the first of these objectives appears on the map which occupies the following two pages...
Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney cows got their names from three lush islands strung along the west coast of the Normandy peninsula, at the end of which lies Cherbourg Harbor. All within 30 miles of France, the Channel Islands nevertheless belonged to Great Britain (each with a proud little provincial Government of its own). When the Germans extended their grip down Europe's west coast to the Spanish border, the English Channel became No Man's Land. But not until last week did 95,000 Channel Islanders recognize that fact and, on orders from London, begin to move...
...Part of Rybachi Peninsula near Petsamo...