Word: battlegrounds
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...story is well known-how they fought through the torn coconut plantations, crossed the Tenaru River, fought the battle of Lunga Ridge; how they grabbed the airfield and hung on, almost out of supplies, ravaged by malaria, while the Japs poured in reinforcements. That tropical battleground became the focus of a nation's anxiety. If the ist had failed, the damage to U.S. plans and morale would have been incalculable. But the ist hung on. buried its hundreds of dead and counted the enemy dead in the thousands...
...report to the nation last week President Roosevelt emphasized the existence not only of strategic integration but of tactical, day-by-day coordination between the western Allies and the Red armies. Britain, the U.S. and Russia are fighting on opposite fringes of one great battleground, and they are fighting one great battle...
First Lieut. Christopher Kilmer, 27-year-old son of the late Soldier-Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees), and a veteran of the Pacific and Italy, turned up on the Alsace front, some 200 miles from the 'Marne battleground where his father was killed in World War I. He admitted that he too had tried his hand at poetry. Sample...
...enemy the Saarland was now no longer an arsenal, but a fortress to be held at whatever cost. Saarbrücken, the ''Little Pittsburgh,"* was apparently to be another Aachen, a building-to-building battleground. Saarlautern, the area's second city, was already a flaming ruin-the target for more than 6,000 German shells, because Major General Harry L. Twaddle's 95th Division had seized its chief bridge intact. In Dillingen, where Patton's men had overrun a major steel plant, the Americans were able to advance only a few hundred yards in five...
...Athens, where British soldiers and Greek Leftists stalked each other with Tommy guns, were the ruins of the hopes born of liberation. Splashes of Greek and British blood slowly clotted on the pavements. Athens, where the word democracy (from demos, the people) first achieved political meaning, was a battleground for two forces, each claiming to defend democracy...