Word: aranda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rightist General Miguel Aranda, commanding the mud-sodden, zigzag line from Teruel to the Mediterranean, issued a "Fight, rain or no rain!" order but Rightist troops inched forward only five miles to take the town of Portell before being halted...
Hottest fighting of the week was on the Mediterranean coast between North & South Leftist Spain. Rightists under General Miguel Aranda, who first won a coastal strip and split Leftist Spain, last week drove south down the coast with difficulty, opposed by young Leftist troops well supplied with automatic rifles, hand grenades and tanks...
...Aranda to the Sea! If the Leftist flight in the Pyrenees sector continues, the Rightists will soon have detached Leftist Spain from France, cut off the flood of French and Soviet munitions through France. This is Rightist Objective No. 1, would almost certainly decide the war. Last week Rightist Objective No. 2 was to complete the drive to the sea and definitely cut Leftist Spain in twain, although to all intents & purposes Generalissimo Francisco Franco accomplished this when Italian Fascist Militia fought down the Ebro River Valley, besieged the town of Tortosa (TIME, April...
...whence it was rebroadcast to all Italy. Then at the gates of Tortosa they ceased broadcasting. Generalissimo Franco, after the Black Arrows had failed for eleven days to take Tortosa, last week politely left them to continue their efforts, sent a smashing 100% Rightist Spanish offensive under General Miguel Aranda driving down to the sea a few miles south of Tortosa. Viñaroz was the first seaside town to be occupied. There General Aranda's Galician troops went down to the shore and jubilantly planted their red & gold banners in the sands. Not a few hands made...
This most professional drive was executed by having Rightist General Garcia Escamez hotly engage a large Leftist defending force in frontal attack, while Rightist Generals Garcia Valino and Aranda swept around the Leftists' wings, met behind them and then swept on toward the Mediterranean in a 16-mile-wide offensive. Twenty miles of coast, from the outskirts of San Carlos de la Rápita to Peñiscola were in Rightist hands by week...