Word: armada
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome last week, while newsmen shot questions at him, Prime Minister Winston Churchill sat down on an open barrel of political TNT and calmly lit a cigar. He had arrived in Italy four days before the Allied armada invaded southern France, three days after the sudden arrival of Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. Since then he had talked to Tito, to Italy's Premier Ivanoe Bonomi, Marshal Badoglio, Lieutenant of the Realm Prince Umberto, to Pope Pius XII. These talks might have concerned military plans. They almost certainly concerned the future plans of Britain and Russia in the Balkans...
Against the massive armada commanded by the U.S.'s gimlet-eyed Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, little Shimada had thrown an inferior task force. He had planned the action so cautiously that his force did not come within hundreds of miles of Spruance's guns. But it did poke its nose within range of Spruance's naval aircraft. That was enough...
...101st, in its first battle; the British 6th. They captured gun positions, pillboxes, road junctions, destroyed bridges. Some of them made contact later with ground troops. Some of them, the Germans claimed, were annihilated. The Old Ladies. It was at 5:35 a.m. that morning that the Allied armada had begun to pour its fire onto the French coast, where brightly colored German ack-ack was streaking the morning sky. In the fleet were old ladies like the Arkansas, belching with twelve 12-in. guns, the Texas and the Nevada, each with ten 14-inchers; the British Warspite, veteran...
Long Wait. At 11:30 p.m. Spaatz made his decision. Orders flashed out, at bases throughout Britain ground crews tumbled out of their bunks to ready the armada - 1,600 bombers and fighters. The attack was to mark the beginning of modern precision air war. In the paneled room at X-House Spaatz and his officers talked on until 2 a.m., then went...
...Alberoni had built the biggest Spanish fleet since the Armada. "It is my aim," he wrote, "that the King should remain at peace with everyone, in order that one day he may be in a position to make war on those who may not wish to be his friends." Meanwhile Alberoni shipped a Spanish army against Austrian-held Sardinia and Sicily...