Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lithuania, where they had held a stabilized line for months, the Germans suddenly caved in before a massive Soviet assault which carried most of the way to the Lithuanian coast and the north border of East Prussia...
...Friday, the hour when the 15,000 Germans were supposed to have re-mined roads in preparation for the renewed assault, Allied warplanes swooped down upon Dunkirk's docks and defenses, the guns spoke. At Dunkirk the war was on again...
...enemy was not attempting a Blitzkrieg. Rather his strangling assault was a slow, ponderous, Montgomeryesque offensive which wound up laboriously, smashed ahead for carefully calculated distances with irresistible force, then paused to crank up again for the next lunge...
Facing certain defeat, the Japs could only take steps to ward off the final assault as long as possible. Example: the Japs decided that their aluminum industry must be re-geared to the use of low-grade ore found in their own islands and in Korea, Manchuria and north China; fine bauxite from Malaya and the islands would soon be cut off by the Allied recapture of the southern islands...
With no friendly army or air force to give assault forces an assist on the China beaches, it may well be necessary for the U.S. to stage the China coastal operation from Formosa - and Formosa, 225 miles long, mountainous, fortified by the Japs since 1895, can be captured only by a bloody major campaign...