Word: all-out
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...all-out attack via the Aleutians and the Marianas, the U.S. must amass more carriers, more shipping, more aircraft. Then it must fight for the bases. All this means that full-scale attacks from the north and center are possibilities for the future. How far in the future depends mainly on how fast the U.S. musters its offensive will and spirit, gets additional aircraft carriers into service, and reconstructs its naval thinking around the assault airplane...
Helfrich's way of holding, until all-out aid arrived, was to attack and attack and attack, hitting the Japs before they were fairly launched into the outer Indies. This offensive strategy involved great risks and probably grave losses. But, like many an admiring U.S. naval officer, Admiral Helfrich believed that the risks would be justified, that warships were built to be risked and perhaps lost. But higher orders kept the combined Dutch and U.S. Fleets from the offensive until the Japs were firmly based in the northern Celebes and upper Borneo, were on the way down the Strait...
Java was already in the vise and the time and chance for an all-out test of Conrad Helfrich's long-planned offensive defense had gone, when he succeeded Admiral Hart in the supreme Indies naval command. His main base at Surabaya was under continuous bomber attack, first from carriers, then from captured land bases. Very soon, Vice Admiral Helfrich had on his hands a desperate job of defense, very close to home...
...plain that MacArthur had gambled on disrupting Japanese plans for an all-out offensive. He might even have captured maps and orders detailing the attack plan. He was missing no tricks. He even struck behind the Jap lines at civilian morale by authorizing expenditure through a Civilian Emergency Administration of $5,000,000 for relief of Filipino soldier and civilian victims of the Jap onslaught...
...prairies, the Winnipeg Free Press roared that "brass hats" who considered an Alaska invasion an impossibility "ought to have their heads examined." In Toronto, Alex Walker, president of the Canadian Legion, which has been leading recent demands for all-out aid to Britain, began to speak of "grave, personal danger [which] confronts every man, woman and child in all our provinces bordering on the two oceans...