Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...south, another powerful force captured the key rail center of Zhmerinka, fought its way into the famed hedgehog of Vinnitsa. By forced day-&-night marches, Zhukov's mobile units caught up with the fleeing Germans, crossed the upper Bug over bridges the Germans had had no time to blow...
...Punch. Still another day, and a U.S. air fleet, estimated at 1,600 to 2,000 bombers and fighter escorts, launched a blow deep into South Germany, hitting Augsburg and four other towns. By nightfall, the R.A.F. crews were briefed and ready for a heavy followup, aimed mainly at Frankfort on the Main. And through the week, almost obscured by the work of the heavy bombers, fleets of mediums and fighter bombers struck methodically at Western France, dropped 5,000 tons of bombs in five days...
...wrote Commentator Hanson Baldwin this week in the New York Times. Solemn and well informed, Mr. Baldwin has taken some heavy swats in the past at both the Army's & Navy's conduct of the war. This blow hit as hard as any. Said Baldwin...
...precedent, military historians looked back to the classic battles of landbound days, and wondered if this might be the stage when the weaker side had committed its reserves and was failing. Then the stronger would strike the knockout blow. He would send in his cavalry, ripping through the flagging line, then pour infantry through the breach while his horsemen drove on, carving a decision in the enemy's disorganized rear areas...
...cracked again, made Dutch Harbor, was repaired by Seabees this time and cleared for Seattle. In the Gulf of Alaska she ran into a gusty blow, hove to for eight hours, cracked again, rigged chains to relieve the stress. When she finally made Puget Sound, she was leaking but still under her own steam...