Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blood of the "universal" type in an ampule-named for its inventor, Dr. S. Seltsovsky of Kiev-provided with a sterilized rubber tube, needle and filter. Blood transfusions can thus be given to wounded soldiers even before the nurse shoulders and carries them, with their guns, off the battlefield...
Caparisoned in a tank-corps beret, ensconced in a tank, the avenging Montgomery rode on deep and dangerous tours of the battlefield, his pale blue eyes and his thin beak of a nose turned west, farther west. Methodically, ruthlessly, he followed up the bloody, broken trail of the Afrika Korps...
...none of these losses will count decisively on the battlefield unless the Red Army-and every other phase of Russia's military potential-has suffered as much as the Germans intended. That the Red Army still exists, and is still strong, the headlines announce every day. Is it strong enough to turn upon and defeat the sorely wounded German Armies? Its only important counteroffensives this year (at Voronezh and Orel, at Rzhev on the Moscow front) were failures. Marshal Semion Timoshenko's limited counteroffensive above Stalingrad in six weeks has failed to advance the Red troops the bare...
From afar the communication lines of both sides ran like threads of a web into the desert battlefield of Egypt. From Italy and Crete, Axis transports on the sea and in the air, plagued by Allied planes, tried to rush reinforcements and supplies. Across French Equatorial Africa tortuous lines fed aid to Montgomery; men of De Gaulle hacked new routes through the jungle. U.S. and British freighters rounded the Cape, climbed the side of East Africa and plowed into the Red Sea. The web covered half the world...
...Corps was counter attacking desperately all along the 40-mile desert front, fearing that the break-through by Australians at the north end of the line might result in a disastrous turning of the entire German left flank. Berlin reports said Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had gone into the battlefield personally to direct strategy...