Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this bloody, stubborn Italian front, the biggest continuing battlefield for U.S. and British soldiers, the immediate responsibility for the Allied command rested with slim, trim, incisive General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander. Ultimate responsibility rested with another soldier whom the world knew more as a military name than a personality: huge, burly, genial General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Supreme Allied Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations...
...adequate community care for her children, and by relieving her of the burden of obtaining and preparing the main meal of the day. Third, give us the truth about our defeats as well as our victories as soon as they happen, whether these are on the homefront or the battlefield. When these things are done and a fair and truly comprehensive count is taken, the whole world will realize that there's nothing the matter with American women and there never has been...
...Russia, millions serve in home-guard units for air-raid defense. Numberless women joined the Partisans during the Nazi occupation. The Government has decorated 4,575 women for valor on the battlefield. Six women have won the Government's highest award...
...fury of battle had died down. Now weary, haggard, bundle-laden refugees slipped out of the forests, bent into the icy wind and snow, plodded across the pitted battlefield. Before them lay Gorodok - the "Little Town" - charred, ruined, stinking of dead flesh and gunpowder...
Many died on the battlefield. Their hospital was crammed with wounded. The unhurt were brokenhearted. Long afterward their general sat, staring sadly at the hill from his observation post. Crown Prince Umberto, who had been there at the start, had already left. Later he flew over the German lines in a tiny, vulnerable U.S. observation plane. Like his pint-sized royal father, Umberto was counting on this new army to remove some of the tarnish from the House of Savoy...