Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visible. On the beach itself were great tripods of steel rails, braced steel fences, all of them ingeniously mined. The demolition units went to work clearing paths while German shells fell among them and German machine gunners hidden in tunnels and six-foot-thick concrete pillboxes raked them. An assault engineer said: "We had to work with water up to our necks, some times higher. Then there were snipers. They were nipping...
...insect collection to the second floor of the new antelope house. At midweek the unruffled London Times continued to devote its front page to want ads. But the "Thunderer" made a big concession to big news, put a tiny headline at the upper right corner of Page One: GREAT ASSAULT GOING WELL...
...news pool, into which the OWI tried to have all available assault copy funneled and shared jointly by U.S. press agencies, broke down in bickering and what one correspondent called "no more than the usual thuggery." After five days it was abandoned...
Some Got Through. A few correspondents accompanying the assault troops had better luck (or greater resourcefulness) than others and got their stories to the U.S. fairly promptly. Among them the Chicago Daily News's belligerent Bill Stoneman, the United Press's veteran Henry T. Gorrell and Richard D. McMillan, the New York Herald Tribune's Joseph Driscoll...
...Felt. The failure of communications could not dim the assault correspondents' heroism. The A.P.'s Henry B. Jameson was the first American newsman casualty. The craft he rode to France was offshore 14 hours, frequently under heavy fire. Hit in the shoulder and leg, Reporter Jameson was able to walk off smiling (see put). First killed: the British Exchange Telegraph's Arthur Thorpe, in a naval action...