Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marines digging into Peleliu's blockhouses found a board inscribed in Japanese: "Defense to the death! We will build a barrier across the Pacific with our bodies...
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army, driving north from Rumania, had already driven out onto the Hungarian plain. Last week, crumpling paper-thin Hungarian opposition, it reached the only water barrier before Budapest and the Danube - the Tisza River. With hardly a pause, the Russians crossed it 50 miles from Budapest, had a clear road ahead to the capital, where Nazis were already beginning to clear...
There was the possibility, perhaps too optimistic, that Allied speed alone might have frustrated the German plans for a stand on the Siegfried Line itself. The Allies thought of that barrier in terms of a few weeks. The Germans hoped in terms of months-until autumn rains and winter could slow the slashing tanks...
...Thrusts that pierced to the Loire, a natural flank barrier for the coming drive into central France...
Even though Pisa and Florence were monuments of European culture they were astride a military line, and that line the Germans were bent on holding if they could. Through both cities the Arno flowed between masonry banks, making it a perfect tank trap and barrier to infantry. The Allies held the south bank, the Germans the north. So the war in Italy became a peculiar kind of delicate slugging match among the museums, with world-famous art in no man's land...