Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first place, the Marines' beachhead on Guadalcanal is important by the mere fact of its having been the first offensive U.S. battlefield against the Japs. It has become the vortex of a naval whirlpool which may easily engulf either adversary. But beyond that it is a geographic key. If the U.S. loses Guadalcanal, the Japanese can press on with relative ease, take the whole chain of islands down through the New Hebrides to New Caledonia (see map), and then have only the narrow moat of the Coral Sea between them and Australia. But if the U.S. holds Guadalcanal...
Last week more political breezes blew in from the West-farther West, this time-and to Democrats they were chill indeed. From Guadalcanal came grave news (see p. 30). Democrats had hoped for a battlefield victory in October; this looked like something else. Said one Democratic bigwig: "If we lose the Solomons, it is going to be terrible. The loss of the Solomons, if we do finally lose them, is going to set this country afire. Hell's fire, the people will...
...evening and we are standing on the outskirts of the city. Before us is the battlefield: smoking hillocks and flaming streets. Everywhere there is a bluish-black smoke cut by fairy arrows rf mortar fire from our guards. White German flares light up the long circular front. First we hear the Nazi bombers roar toward the city, then the explosions of their bombs. Next comes the roar of our bombers sailing west. They drop yellow flares to illuminate the German position, and a few seconds later they drop cargoes of death...
...last whiff of smoke blew off the wreck-strewn El Hemeimat battlefield, one thing appeared to be certain: the British had not only rocked Rommel's Afrika Korps back on its heels; they had given it a drubbing. If at least two observers, Winston Churchill and Wendell Willkie, could be believed, the Axis had suffered a major defeat...
Author Ormsbee's battlefield scenes are just as tough. His no man's land is awash with blood. His hospital interludes are richly orgiastic. Lying in his hospital bed, Hero Abner hears "the nurses being chased through the halls, laughing and screaming...