Word: ambusher
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Matapan (March 28, 1941), a night action south of Greece, was Cunningham's greatest pitched battle with the Italians-because he was able to ambush them and force a fight. Just before the action he flashed to his ships: "We are going to have some fun." They did. They sank three cruisers and two destroyers...
...After watching the Eighth Army knock out 52 German tanks in twelve hours TIME Correspondent Jack Belden wrote: "Tanks! How futile they appear face to face with these ambush-emplaced guns. Like papier máché boxes they are strewn across the Médinine plain...
...Credited last spring with having broken up a Nazi espionage system in southern Brazil, thereby incidentally saving the Queen Mary, with 10,000 troops aboard, from ambush by Nazi U-boats...
...mountains offered the Red Army a magnificent chance to stop the Germans, if, instead of depending passively on terrain to do the job, they made aggressive use of their greater knowledge of hidden valleys and obscure roadways, of their opportunities for ambush and sudden flank attack, of the fact that German air power is less useful in the mountains than on level battlefields...
Then came the surprise. The extent of military installations and the strength of the Australian holding force in Milne Bay had been a closely guarded military secret. It was a secret no longer. From their ambush, Australian combat forces under veteran Major General Cyril Clowes fell on the invaders, drove them from the narrow shore into the waist-deep mud of the mangrove swamps. Allied planes blasted them. The Japanese sent a rescue fleet of eight destroyers and a cruiser to evacuate the remnants of their forces. Lost were all their tanks and heavy equipment...