Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preparing such a move. His salient was contracting, but it was shrinking around a hard armored shell-in which he might be regrouping for another thrust at Liège, main Allied rear base for the Aachen-Cologne sector. The first heavy German blow in four days was an assault by three divisions on the Bastogne corridor...
...week Allied commanders were willing to concede that the V-bombs had true military value when coupled with an offensive. The Germans fired salvos of V15 and V-25, and a shorter-ranged, smaller version of V-2 as they would have used heavy artillery in advance of an assault. Their effectiveness was obvious: even haphazard strikes could do military damage aplenty in junction towns crowded with men and materials. The enemy claimed to have poured them on Antwerp, Brussels and Liège without mercy...
...threat of these planes; the factories building them were top-priority targets. The Nakajima Company's great Musashina factory on Tokyo's outskirts was hit three times before year's end. Said the 21st's commander, Brigadier General Haywood S. Hansell Jr., after the second assault: "We haven't destroyed the plant-not by a damn sight." After the third blow, he still was not satisfied. "Possum" Hansell's flyers had better luck against the two Mitsubishi plants at Nagoya. The Hatsudoki factory had 600,000 square feet (40% of its built-up area...
Crowds of Filipinos, some bearing the Stars & Stripes, ran down one sector of the beach and halted the bombardment. The first assault wave landed dry-footed on the steep, grey beach. Not a shot had been fired against them. An hour later, Zero fighter-bombers turned up, but half were shot down...
...Parthenon in a new, glowing beauty. The Acropolis was again a fortress. Under cover of night British paratroopers descended on the historic (and once more strategic) eminence, found it unoccupied. All round them was ELAS-land, but the skytroopers were confident they could hold the precipitous heights against any assault. The only troops which had ever taken the Acropolis by storm were the Persians...