Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Below us spread hills and trails over which I had retreated in 1938 with Chinese armies driven back upon Hankow by the great Japanese force seeking to capture the Yangtze Valley and conquer China by one blow. It was almost like coming home. Mountains gave way to hills and around about their bases lapped greyish yellow waters. The Yangtze is in flood and we are drawing near our target, I thought. I crawled through the tunnel under the pilot's seat and came out in the glassed bombardier's compartment. Butch Morgan sat in the very nose...
...would take more than a blow to morale to explain the sudden failure of good, experienced airmen. Perhaps Douglas MacArthur could get at the cause, eradicate it. Meanwhile, short of planes, short of men, short of everything but the will for an offensive, he could go back to an old, sad problem: not how to go after the Jap but how to stop...
...Arabia laid the foundations for modern guerrilla technique and theory by demonstrating that a small force could wage a war of attrition on a superior force by keeping the enemy diversified and under constant attack. General Mikhaile....h has proved that guerrillas can also deal a simultaneous knockout blow, while the Chinese have developed fine intelligence techniques...
Harvey's hits were also influential in the runs-batted-in department, since his sixth inning single was the blow that scored runners from second and third to put the Crimson one up, after trailing...
...Plus. Tallied by U.S. forces in that time were three Jap destroyers and one transport sunk; four cruisers, three destroyers, a gunboat and another transport damaged; seven enemy aircraft, possibly several others, destroyed. Any Japanese plan for a swift knockout blow to the main U.S. naval base in Alaska had been thwarted. But though Alaska stood firm, it was at a price...