Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British and U.S. troops every day practice assault tactics along Britain's serrated coasts, grimly splashing ashore under live gunfire, simulating actual battle, sometimes dying in the winter waves. Camouflaged trucks rumble endlessly through country lanes. Farmers' fields feel the strange bite of tank treads. By night the R.A.F.'s soft drumming fills the sky. By day people stop still in the streets to watch the silvery bomber formations high overhead: "Blimey, look how tight those Americans keep together...
...into a war which was none of its business. Said he: the second front, at best, would be a "tremendous gamble." Why rush into something rash? And why settle for anything but a strictly 50-50 partnership? The British were not yet ready for a cross-Channel assault, anyway. The U.S., said Burt Wheeler, once took orders from Britain, but now seemed to be "following the demands of Mr. Stalin. . . . We ought to be extremely cautious before calling on American boys to make these tremendous sacrifices...
...combat. Some formations took 45 minutes to pass over Dover. Window-jarring explosions swept across the narrow waters. For the first time since the Eighth Air Force and the R.A.F. staged a practice preliminary around Boulonge (TIME, Sept. 20), heavy day and night bombers shifted from the strategic assault on Germany to tactical assault on the invasion coast of France...
General Dwight David Elsenhower will direct the main assault from Britain. On the supple, affable shoulders of the 53-year-old American will fall the toughest job of military coordination since Marshal Ferdinand Foch took supreme command over 1918's Western Front...
During one island assault in the Solomons, in the space of one day, under constant enemy bombing, they...