Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defense in Part. The seventh week of V-1 assault was bad enough. The Things came over in increasing salvos. The number of robombs destroyed in southern England's elaborate and still-growing system of defense rose; but more & more got through. Londoners learned a few items of their defense-in-depth, heard that R.A.F. fighter pilots, as they had in the bomb blitzes, were again doing a legendary...
...Germans a month ago. Now, a few miles outside it, the Germans were fighting with fierce, expert craft. At week's end the German resistance stiffened. But the Germans' battle was a losing one. Within a matter of days they would have to yield before the combined assault of Eighth Army New Zealanders, Indians, South Africans and British...
...Blitz. Unlike irregular political theory, unorthodox military thinking in Russia has never been penalized. In the 1930s Soviet air-war theory was characterized by bold ideas. It was a Russian, Amiragov, who was among the first to state that a modern war must start with a coordinated assault by tanks and aircraft. The Germans were at work on this nucleus of the Blitzkrieg idea, but the rest of Europe paid little attention. The Russians were the first to experiment on a large scale with mass dropping of parachute troops, and among the first with gliderborne assault forces...
...campaign. Within 24 hours two of the best ports in northern Italy-Leghorn and Ancona-were captured. Five days later the Allies were at the Arno River, had fought in the streets of Pisa, stood only twelve miles from Florence. Only these two cities remained before the last grand assault of the Battle of Italy could be begun-the attack on the German Gothic Line in the high Appenines...
...rain bow, as the seaward-looking Chamorros saw it, were most of the U.S. Fifth Fleet and 'the ships of the Third Amphibious Group under round-faced, round-bellied Rear Admiral Richard L. Conolly. At the end of the rainbow, as the shoreward-looking U.S. seamen and assault troops saw it, was the airstrip on Orote Peninsula...