Word: battlefronts
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...insistence that North Africa is vital, that it is a hub of the Allied war scheme. Still, with the probability of a vast German attack on Russia, and existence of a major Japanese attempt to crush China, danger to the United Nations loomed on every sector of the battlefront. And nowhere had there yet been signs of an offensive to endanger the Axis. All the signs pointed to a summer of bad news for the Allies...
This time they had to pin down the Russian army in order to crush it, for the Russians can even now retreat 1,000 miles without even reaching the Ural industrial area. To do this, the Germans had to be free to attack along the whole 2,000-mile battlefront. For this the Germans had to wait for good weather. Not until mid-June can the ground be counted on to be fit and hard in the north around Leningrad (a month later than in the Ukraine...
Next morning, again in South St. Louis, the same scene was repeated. Over the body of Jerome U. Schmitt, 19, private in the Marines, who died of wounds on a Pacific battlefront, a Roman Catholic priest intoned the Requiem Mass. Out in a suburban cemetery, three volleys echoed again...
Said he pointedly in London: "The U.S. can now supply men and materials on a large scale to a European battlefront." The other was honest General George Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army and no showy talker. At West Point's graduation exercises he departed from pleasantries and the usual sermon on the honor of the Cadet Corps to hammer a few global-war tacks. Said he: "Today we find American soldiers throughout the Pacific, in Burma, China and India. They have wintered in Greenland and Iceland...
...Australia's fighting forces there was no time for rejoicing. The Jap had lost only a small part of his Navy. He might, probably would, be back. He had to be kept under bombing, under ceaseless reconnaissance. On that tense battlefront men could see, hear and feel the enemy...