Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting, TIME Correspondent James Shepley reported: "The field of this attack . . . was almost cleared of trees, sawed off by machine-gun fire and broken into shredded stumps by mortar bursts. When the attack ended I counted the bodies of 50 Japs in an area hardly bigger than my backyard at Bethesda, Md. Most of them were still in their foxholes where they had been shot or bayoneted by the Chinese...
This time the target beyond the dark horizon was Palau, 1,176 miles due west of Truk, only 550 miles short of the Philippines. And this time it was a far bigger operation than any the U.S. Navy had previously undertaken in the Pacific. In fact, both in its execution and in its objective, this was an operation involving the whole Pacific theater...
...Bigger Game. The obvious aim of the operation was even bigger. On Feb. 16 Truk was first struck, but the Japanese pulled back their naval units. On Feb. 22 a similar blow was made at Saipan; again the Japanese drew back. Although they did not give up these islands-their garrisons will probably stay put till rooted out-this Japanese naval retirement meant that the Japanese had to withdraw their main seaborne supply route farther west, until it was out of U.S. reach...
...Bigger Guns? The need for more heavy artillery - main U.S. reliance in Italy has been on the 105-mm. howitzer (standard field gun of World War II) and on 155s for heavier work - is illustrated by the comment of one veteran battalion commander on the Cassino front : "The effectiveness of artillery on the offense in this country has been negligible since the Germans are so obviously well...
Back in India Wingate briefed his motley crowd of intellectuals and cutthroats. On March 5 and 6 Wingate struck with his main force (bigger than early dispatches indicated) in a way new to the Japanese. Instead of many weeks hacking through jungle as in the first campaign, the Raiders arrived in hours. "The Wing" and his men seized a field behind the Japanese lines, built an airstrip, flew in the Raiders and their supplies. Wingate praised American cooperation in one of his last interviews: "Without it we'd never have been able to accomplish so much...