Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Navy Department announced the Indianapolis' sinking, ordered an inquiry into what some called a colossal blunder. Of the 1,196-man crew, every last Jack was a casualty; 880 were listed dead or missing. Not since the Juneau was sunk by torpedoes in the Solomons (684 dead, four survivors) had the U.S. Navy suffered such a disaster...
Many Allied military men believe that the Germans made one colossal blunder: their decision to invade Russia rather than Britain. Not only in the popular British view, but in the view of Allied military men, immediately after Dunkirk Britain lacked the physical means of repelling a determined invasion. The Germans would have found it costly but they would probably have succeeded...
...coming ashore-was gone. Perhaps counting too much on a three or four months' delay between the end of the Iwo Jima fighting and the start of the next U.S. operation, the Japs had delayed reinforcing Okinawa's garrison. Certainly the Japanese commander had pulled a major blunder; he had prepared for attack from the east and south, found himself fighting an attack from the west...
...school, he had one outstanding qualification for his job: a contagious fighting spirit. To Colonel Zemke, one of the truly great fighter commanders of World War II, there was only one unforgivable mistake: "To let a Hun get away is a criminal offense. It's a worse blunder than getting shot up yourself...
Save Dave. John Bricker swung back to Columbus, Ohio, after trekking down side roads in 31 states, 16,000 miles from coast to coast. Harry Truman ended an 8,000-mile, 15-state tour with a blazing blunder in close-fought Massachusetts. He called his fellow Democratic Senator, Massachusetts' massive, paunchy David Ignatius Walsh, an isolationist, adding brightly: "But we have a chance to reform him." Senator Walsh, a longtime anti-New Dealer, reputedly of great influence on the Massachusetts Catholic vote, had devoted exactly two grudging sentences to the support of his party, without reference to Term...