Word: bloodiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...robomb terror. Statisticians totted up averages: each day 108 one-ton robombs were mauling southern England (which meant mostly London), each day they destroyed or damaged 17,000 houses. Only half as many civilians (2,441 a month) were being killed as in the blitz's bloodiest days, but the proportion of seriously injured stood higher. At week's end the capital had a 30-hour respite, broken when a fresh wave of robombs buzzed from new directions...
...Saipan three divisions of battle-tried U.S. troops fought one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. military annals. By week's end, they had pushed, blasted and gouged the enemy from two-thirds of the island's 75 square miles. They were sure of victory. But the Jap, fighting a Bataan in reverse, in the third week of it still fought hard...
...Saipan, at least two divisions of U.S. marines, plus Army infantry, tore into the bloodiest Pacific fighting since Tarawa. The Navy's guns had admirably covered their landings, but the island was too mountainous for either naval guns or air bombing to decide the inland fighting...
...bloodiest beach in U.S. history, and sharp-eyed Bob Sherrod has recreated it in a sharply etched picture. More than that, his book records the simple, human qualities of the fighting Marines. Sherrod watched them give away their last drops of precious drinking water to wounded men, saw them in the thick of battle giving away their last cigarets and bulging out the empty packs so their buddies wouldn't suspect it was the last one. They joked incessantly. In the face of whistling sniper-fire one boyish Marine was seen dashing madly across the beach-he was chasing...
...Britain, U.S. Marines brought seven days of breathless climbing and vicious fighting to an end by capturing Hill 660. A minor battle by global standards, it was also one of the bloodiest yet fought by the Marines in the Southwest Pacific. The dividend: early use of the Cape Gloucester airfield, whence bombers could strike at Rabaul...