Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deep Sea. Since the Allies had made clear that they must have Italy as a base against Germany, the Badoglio Government faced an almost impossible situation. How could it keep Italy from becoming a battlefield? The Rome radio complained: "Fascism has fallen. What have [the Allies] offered Italy? . . . The velvet glove over the iron fist of unconditional surrender. . . . Our peace could be nothing but a continuance of war, with us or without us or over...
Said Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell: "It is easy to say that the 50 trucks or the 200 engines which could not be produced against schedule this month can be made up next month, but a battlefield lost on Tuesday is difficult to regain on Wednesday...
...they were not shelling our rear. They were not shelling our tanks. They were shelling us. That noise, that approaching roar, drowned out even the power to think. On the hill up which our soldiers were struggling, the rocket shells started fires. Soon, to the normal noise of the battlefield, was added the crackle and hiss of flames...
...suggestive fact that the French people's national epic, Chanson de Roland, glorifies its defeat in war. For France, almost since its emergence as a nation, has been not only Europe's cultural capital, but its favorite battlefield and biggest graveyard. Living men have twice seen France smashed as a nation-in 1870 and in 1940. The French defeat of 1870 has long been associated with the name of Marshal Bazaine. Marshal Pétain has become almost a synonym for the collapse...
Cause. What caused the unexpected lag in production at the very time when increases are required? Some individual drops are traceable to the redesigning of equipment, to changeovers because of new battlefield needs. Some have been caused by strikes and floods. But the lag has apparently been far too general to be traceable to any of these isolated causes...