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...previous discussions I have suggested that it might be well for us to take up with our brothers of Mexico the acquisition of what is known as Lower California. . . . There is a large and deep body of water between the peninsula and the mainland of Mexico. In that water a fleet could almost be hidden. . . ." Bob Reynolds had one more little matter to be taken up-Wrangel Island, off the coast of Alaska. The cardboard statesman waxed lyrical as he described the barren, snow-covered island, its possible importance to future air routes. The first landing there...
Along the Coast. The Allied team finally got the ball at the end of 1943, on Huon Peninsula-the equivalent of their own 15-yard line. What followed was the military equivalent of a series of seven forward passes, ending on Vogelkop (Bird's Head) Peninsula, 1,200 miles away -the enemy's goal line...
Kluge took a bolder course. He left the Seventh Army to hold the British and Canadians in Normandy. He counted on the Americans spending time to mop up Brittany while he was scraping together reserves to seal off the Brittany peninsula. But he had underestimated U.S. speed and daring. Leaving mopping-up to wait, the Americans had already taken Le Mans and were swinging north against the Seventh Army's rear when Kluge's reinforcements began to arrive over his battered roads. Underrating the American threat, Kluge threw his reinforcements into an attempt to push his dangling flank...
South of the Bonins 900 miles, the battle for Guam was near its end. The unpredictable Japs had elected not to defend the southern half of the island after Orote Peninsula fell. Last week U.S. ships swarmed into Port Apra, found the harbor in excellent shape for moving in supplies...
...enemy retired to the northeastern peninsula, giving up the shattered capital of Agana with so little struggle that its recapture was not even mentioned in Admiral Nimitz' communiques...