Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...north, 1st Cavalry Division and 24th Infantry Division units, weary after more than three weeks of steady fighting -Major General Frederick Irving's 24th still bore Leyte's brunt-pushed southward from Carigara Bay, but had advanced no more than two miles by week's end. From the south the 7th and 96th Divisions progressed just as slowly while the Japs prepared for the big battle...
Anyone who could make a statement that we froze in our foxholes is not familiar with the operations on this island. The breakthrough that is mentioned in your article was one of the most heroic. We are proud to work with the unit who met the brunt of the attack...
...Pacific, a military problem came first: the final strategy to beat Japan. The brunt of the fighting would probably be left to the U.S., but British forces might well be assigned to retaking Singapore and the Dutch Indies. The big question was: have U.S. air and sea successes permitted a big change in the oldtime Navy strategy? Is the invasion of South China still necessary, or will the main thrust be directly at the Jap mainland? Even more immediate was the problem of help to China, which is close to defeat at the moment her Allies are close to victory...
Mortain was a critical spot (see above). There the Germans had thrown four armored divisions into desperate counterattack. The object: to pierce the narrow waist of the U.S. corridor from Normandy, thus split the Allied front. One U.S. division, new to combat when it landed in France, took the brunt of the Panzer blow, recoiled, then stood and slugged...
Into Florence. The Fifth Army had been pinned in the southern part of Pisa more than a week while the Eighth Army fought its way up to Florence in one of the hardest advances since Rome. Aggressive, gun-happy New Zealanders under Lieut. General Bernard L. Freyberg took the brunt of this fighting and made the most advances...