Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airborne attack was launched from Campbell Field, Ky., 100 miles northwest of the battlefield. In the grey mist big transports thundered down the runways closely spaced, each plane crammed with paratroops and each towing a bulky Army glider...
...home front-as well as the battlefronts-clearly worried Jap propagandists last week. The radio exhorted: "The battlefield spirit must be preserved within the home front. . . . There are many complaints. . . . But who suffers even more? It is Europe. . . . They are eating rats or crows. We are not, yet. . . . Our lot is not so hard." A mass rally in Tokyo struck another theme: "The enemy, America and Britain, is coming forward. . . . The war situation has become strained. . . . The 100,000,000 people of Japan must consolidate the feeling of hatred toward the enemy...
...institutions was like their faith in the eternal course of nature. . . . [Then] in a moment we were the most warlike nation on earth. . . . We were not merely a people with an army-we were a people in arms. . . . Here are sheaves reaped in the harvest of death from every battlefield. . . . If each grave had a voice to tell us what its silent tenant last saw and heard on earth we might . . . hear the whole story...
...academician with books and slide rule could have calculated their attack in advance. It was the experience of living combat airmen and their dead comrades that had worked out the pattern for the attack, now used from the Aleutians to New Guinea, from Burma to Europe's battlefield...
Over Europe's battlefield, gunners in U.S. bombers have a new problem of aircraft recognition. On many raids their new fighter escorts are Republic Thunderbolts (P-47s) which have just entered the battle of Europe. And in the swirling confusion of a battle with pursuit planes, the broadnosed, round-bodied P47 can easily be mistaken for the Germans' best fighter: Focke-Wulf's famed...