Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still silent remained Il Duce's own paper Il Popolo d'ltalia (to which all Fascist Party members must subscribe), unwilling yet to attack Joseph Stalin or to slam the Moscow-Berlin Axis. There will be time enough for that when it becomes certain that Joseph Stalin is going to thwart Benito Mussolini's ambitions in the Balkans...
...tank treads, the ripping tear of exhaust from trucks mired in the mud, the metallic jangle of troops in large numbers on the move. To the Allies this could mean only one thing: the Germans were moving up troops along the entire front, perhaps were readying for an attack in force. Into action went French artillery -slim 75s, big-mouthed 155s, even a few long-snouted railroad guns of big calibre, firing across the line for the first time since the war began...
This week it came-a small push along a four-mile front, but the first attack in force the Germans have made. It came along the northern flank through the Moselle Valley-an offensive that an official French communique described as "an attack supported by artillery fire." French outposts were slowly driven back toward the Maginot Line. From the rear came reinforcements and a counterattack and at the end of the day the German infantry had been stopped, at least for the time. But they had pushed back about a mile and a quarter into...
...most two dozen British planes attack the German naval bases at Wilhelms-haven, Cuxhaven and Brunsbüttel with only minor success; perhaps half that many attack Helgoland Bight, most of them never to return...
...Biggest air attack so far came last week. Late one rainy afternoon, a British naval squadron ran across two or three German vessels "southwest of Norway." They gave pursuit, and chased the German ships all night. Next day a force of German bombers appeared and attacked, echelon after echelon. Germans later claimed ten direct hits, six with heavy bombs, four with medium. The British reported that one shot came close enough to splatter splinters on a cruiser. Two German planes, either crippled or lost, made forced landings in Danish territory, one went down off the Danish coast...