Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wounds in the Mountains. In their first major encounter with the Germans, U.S. troops had taken a thorough shellacking. They had admittedly gambled on their ability to hold the line by bluff, but the fact remained: for the first time in this war, on a battlefield of their own choosing, U.S. troops had been thoroughly defeated...
Said Franklin Roosevelt: "I think we should be prepared for the fact that Tunisia will cost us heavily in casualties. Yes, we must face that fact now, with the same calm courage as our men are facing it on the battlefield itself...
...Bases & Battlefields. Air forces, in the prelude to the final struggle, hammered at each other's bases and communication lines. The score in the air: 645 Axis planes downed; 260 Allied. Both sides continued to pour men and materiel into the constricted, crowded battlefield. Axis forces already numbered 250,000 men, according to Mr. Churchill. Allied forces on the front line were undisclosed, although Mr. Churchill said 500,000 had been landed in Northwest Africa...
...days, she rendered us invaluable service. . . . It is of important interest to the United Nations and especially Britain that Turkey should become well armed in all the apparatus of a modern army, and her brave infantry shall not lack the essential weapons which play a decisive part on the battlefield today. These weapons we and the United States are now, for the first time, in a position to supply. . . . We can give them as much as they are able to take, and we can give them these weapons as fast or faster than Turkish troops can be trained...
Penicillin has the disadvantages of being hard to make, easy to spoil-it must be kept at refrigerator temperatures and would be very inconvenient for battlefield use. But, since it may fill many gaps in chemotherapy, the doctors following it feel like hounds on a hot scent...