Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defeat of the German Army was decided ... at the end of last year. ... The Battle of Stalingrad ended with the destruction of an army of 300,000 men. . . . At the end of the Stalingrad battle 147,210 officers and men v. ere picked up from the battlefield and buried. . . . After the Stalingrad slaughter the Germans were unable to recover...
...night the alert lasted only half an hour. But one heavy bomb plumbed into a crowded dance hall and milk-bar. When the dust of the blast had settled, the district all around looked to eyewitnesses "like a battlefield," recalled the horrors of the blitz and jarred Londoners out of their recent tendency to ignore air-raid alarms...
...ardent antifascist, Robeson later went to Spain, sang for the Loyalists on the battlefield, his great voice carrying into the Insurgents' camp. Late in 1939 he decided to come home...
...There's no place in the world as quiet as a battlefield before a battle," he mused aloud. Later, riding back, he met some field officers. "Hit 'em hard, boys," he said, "damn hard!" His jeep passed a signpost giving the kilometers to Rome: 192 (120 mi.). "That's not so far," he commented. "I remember seeing the first sign to Naples after landing at Salerno. It read 105 kilometers. We made it all right. Just as the boys of the Fifth Army will make Rome...
...have not been out of a war zone for seven years, but I don't think I ever really knew how the soldier felt until I was wounded and had to lie on the battlefield alone and in pain, as so many have done before...