Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tooey was anxious to make a start on his greatest assignment: knocking the props from under the German air force. His plan was ready, with six top-priority factories listed for destruction in the first paralyzing blow...
...last seen hurtling into the sea. Eighty-four Marines flew against the Japs during the crisis at Midway; 38 were killed. Said Admiral Chester Nimitz to their commanding officer at Midway: "The sacrifices of your heroic men have not been in vain. . . . They dealt the enemy carriers the first blow and they spearheaded our great victory...
...major of the Canadian Parachutists get cut in two in mid-air and two boys drowned in the Chattahoochee River, passed his jumping, running, tumbling and jujitsu tests, was hospitalized twice in two weeks, jumped with a charge of TNT and crawled five miles through the woods to blow up a deserted house...
...enemy has been forced to fight on an extended front . . . continually engaged . . . while our regroupment was in progress. . . . Because of the position of the Allied beachhead force, the enemy couldn't know where our next blow would fall. . . . [Allied troops] have been fully conscious of the role they have played...
This was a sharp sentimental blow to China. But militarily it meant little-whatever the Japanese claims. (Said Tokyo: Loyang's fall had "dealt a mortal blow against the U.S. air units . . . vainly seeking air bases within flying radius of the Japanese mainland...