Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly a fortnight of continuous attack the Russians had gained only a few outposts, and their tanks ground over the bones of the dead that strewed the battlefield. So jammed were their roads and railroads with fresh troops and supplies that they left their wounded to freeze to death where they fell. The Finns retreated cautiously, carrying their wounded with them, for to Finland's tiny army every man was precious. How many men the Russians used, nobody knew. It did not matter; they had all they could deploy and replacements for all who fell. From the other fronts...
...lives and our homes. . . . But withal, we have been called to part with some. We have learned only of the following: Killed, Miss Virginia Wade, by our own sharpshooters; and Edward M. son of Alexander Woods, shot accidentally by his brother, while playing with a gun picked off the battlefield...
...Weygand's French, British and possibly Turkish Army, from Syria. Quick action was being urged, said he. because "the present situation in the unpredictable Balkans, and particularly in Rumania, will permit no delay." By Wednesday night, he could see this campaign advancing right to Rumania, "a natural battlefield for open warfare between the mechanized units of modern armies." By Friday, black Balkan headlines had given plenty of point to Editor Williams' Balkan pointers...
...anti-aircraft shell had caught the plane squarely and exploded its bomb load, blowing it to pieces." First detailed accounts of the tactics used by the Finns to wreck the Russian invasion at Suomussalmi reached the U. S. along with the first good pictures (see opposite page) of the battlefield. When two Russian divisions (the 163rd and 44th) occupied Suomussalmi in the early days of the war (TIME, Jan. 1), the Finns had only two companies to oppose them. The Finns, aided by their network of railways, quickly brought up reinforcements from the neighborhood of Lake Laatokka. They succeeded...