Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind the Hungarian front line, Yugoslavia and Greece were mere mop-up operations. Belgrade, the "white city," wise in the ways of war, was again a battlefield. Russians and Yugoslav Partisans were fighting in its streets, where Germans had erected pillboxes, antitank obstacles and gun emplacements. To the south, the railroad-junction city of Nish was captured by Partisans and Bulgarians...
Happily Lee's men moved on toward the little town that was to be the greatest battlefield of the Western Hemisphere: Gettysburg. There had never been an invasion in history like this one. There has never been such another...
...battlefield, both parties sent out patrols to bring the voter back. The landscape was filled with glittering people, celebrities eager to serve as volunteer stretcher-bearers...
Hiding by day, riding by night, the Japanese last week ground out new and ominous gains in their China offensive-the greatest land campaign ever fought by the men from the little island empire. Although the nearest battlefield was almost 350 miles from Chungking, the atmosphere in the capital was heavy with disaster. The Jap drive was a new and terrible threat to the very heart of Free China, the stronghold area lying in a quadrilateral between Chengtu, Chungking, Kweiyang and Kunming...
...large part a Washington job, by Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell's Army Service Forces and his chief planner, cool, efficient Major General Leroy Lutes. They were the wholesalers, getting the supplies from the producers, estimating how much could go to Europe (and how much to every other battlefield in the world), and delivering them on the far shore of the ocean in the quantities needed and at the time required...