Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wanting, last main link in the new Allied supply chain to China (see above), fell last week after a savage fight for the high ground dominating the town. From that battlefield, TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White cabled...
...Scene Is Set. Now the sun rises from the east behind us in China and throws its glare directly on the Japs on the mountain to the west, blinding them. From our observation post on the hill nearest to Huilungshan, the whole battlefield seems very theatrical, very beautiful...
...along the fighting fronts. Americans at home, who take it for granted their sons are fighting with the best equipment in the world, are surprised at the German qualitative superiority." But not only with tanks and guns, said Baldwin, have the Germans beaten us on and to the battlefield. They have shown us the way with rockets, robot bombs, jet-propelled planes...
...battlefield east of Celles was a white silence, darkly blotched with corpses and wreckage. At Celles, three miles short of the Meuse River, the German spearhead which had reached 50 miles into Belgium was blunted and turned back...
...wrote in a letter of recommendation that in view of Lt. Hackett's serious wounds received in battle, he had used him in a training inspection capacity which called for talks to junior officers and men undergoing training, for the purpose of instilling into them the realities of the battlefield...