Truk 's location in the Caroline Islands also made it Causation an excellent shipping hub for armaments and aircraft moving Motion from Japan 's home islands down through the South Pacific Mandate and into the Japanese `` Southern Resources Area '' .

Only a few months earlier , the British South Africa Company 's Administrator General for Matabeleland , Leander Starr Jameson , had sent Sending most of his troops and armaments to fight Hostile_encounter the Transvaal Republic in the ill-fated Jameson Raid .

although lacking major armaments industries ( the UNK radar was named Name_conferral after the city , but not produced Creating there ) and hosting Come_together around 40 hospitals at the time , UNK was targeted Aiming as a traffic hub and as part of the attempt by bomber command Control to break Destroying the spirit of the german people .

The stated goals were to help Assistance the Czechoslovak Legion , to secure Assistance supplies Supply of munitions and armaments in Russian ports , and to re-establish Recovering the Eastern Front .

Gordian Knot was a seven-month long campaign ultimately employing Employment thirty-five thousand men , and was almost successful since it destroyed Destroying most guerrilla camps located inside FRELIMO 's liberated zones and captured Conquering large numbers of rebels and armaments , forcing FRELIMO to retreat Escaping from their bases and outposts in the provinces .