Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pershing solid-fuel ballistic missile, with a range of more than 300 miles. Mounted on its own tracked vehicle, which serves as transporter and launcher, the Pershing is an enormous improvement over earlier battlefield ballistic missiles, e.g., the Sergeant, which moved in three segments in three trucks, took the crew half an hour to assemble and fire...
...week's end, De Gaulle and Ike clattered up to Gettysburg in an Army helicopter for a brief visit to the Eisenhower farm and a trip to the adjoining national monument that is a shrine to professional soldiers the world over: the Gettysburg battlefield. From Gettysburg they flew to Camp David for further talk. Just how much progress was made toward ironing out what minor differences still divide the U.S. and France will probably not come clear until President de Gaulle himself plays host to the summit session in Paris...
...Italians," says Field Marshal Erich von Manstein in his memoirs of Stalingrad, simply "disappeared from the battlefield." In the most decisive battle of World War II, the Russians, breaking through west of the city on the front held by 220,000 men of Mussolini's Italian Expeditionary Force among others, hurtled on across the Don steppes and never finally stopped till they got to Berlin. In six weeks of catastrophic rout and retreat, the Italians' ten divisions suffered casualties officially estimated at 115,000 men. Of these, they evacuated 30,000 wounded and listed 11,000 as dead...