Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roer valley is the natural platform for an attack on the Ruhr, now all the more precious to Germany since industrial Silesia has been invaded by the Russians. From the Roer Eisenhower had been preparing to attack in December when Rundstedt's blow fell. Now Eisenhower was preparing to attack again, in the same valley. He had completely regained the initiative. The place was right, the time was ripe- and, according to the nervous Ger mans, Lieut. General William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army was accumulating potent masses of armor. Lack of armor in heavy concentration...
...Moscow and Stalingrad, was almost within range of his big guns (31 miles at the closest officially reported point). With one more massive lunge Zhukov might have carried the battle to Berlin, perhaps could have swept around or into much of the city. It would have been a tremendous blow to the sagging German will to fight...
...Zhukov paused, to strengthen his grip. Perhaps there was no great danger, but there was still some danger in attempting a quick blow against Berlin. Zhukov well knew what the Germans knew too well: that a sprawling city becomes a fortress, that an attacking force risks being pinched into its ruins by flank attacks. That was what Zhukov had done to the Germans at Stalingrad...
...Germans, while massing most of their strength in front of Berlin, guessed rightly that Marshal Ivan Konev would try to complete his envelopment of Breslau and widen his bridgeheads in the Steinau area. But they guessed wrong about Konev's power. When the blow came it was in huge force-enough to carry through Steinau and on to Liegnitz, 35 miles west of Breslau...
...Bridge. The Japs had blown the upstream bridges, and were all set to blow the Jones Bridge, nearest the Bay. Lieut. James P. Sutton. a Navy demolition expert, went out on the bridge and removed the detonators from sixty 110-lb. bombs. A few troops got across, but before additional units could be rushed to their support the enemy succeeded in blowing the bridge, anyway. It took days to get the next elements of the 37th across in small boats and "alligators...