Word: cannoneer
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...Allies had complete naval supremacy, which enabled them to bring in the thousands of tons of supplies which any day's battle requires. They had air supremacy too. Major General John ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, tactical air commander in Italy, boasted that his planes had knocked out rail communication so completely that no through trains had moved from the Po Valley to the Gustav line since March 24; the Germans had to rely on truck transport, chiefly at night, over Highway No. 7 -the Via Appia-and Highway No. 6-Via Casilina...
...make these gains, Japan used a small force-probably no more than 50,000 men. But fleets of trucks, mobile cannon, some 600 whippet tanks and armored cars gave this army its winning asset: mobility on the vast Honan plain (in three weeks the Japanese covered some 300 miles...
...Uncle Joe" Cannon's Twelfth Air Force was at work over the lines. It also ranged north into the Germans' rear areas, smashing bridges, shooting up railroad and truck trains. It was busy every hour of the day at what Joe Cannon called its "strangling operation." General Cannon had given his airman's word that all heavy communications from the north had been cut days before the battle began, and that they would stay cut. If his judgment was correct, the men on the ground could plow forward with hope at their grim job: making the Germans...
...sniffing of the cannon's scented breath...
Major General John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon's Twelfth (Tactical) Air Force was working harder than ever on a job hopefully christened "operation strangle." If Cannon's tacticians spoke medical terminology they might have called it "arteriotomy," for they were quite literally cutting the German supply arteries. His Mitchells, Marauders, Warhawks and Thunderbolts were trying, very forcefully, to bleed Marshal Kesselring's stubborn divisions to death by severing - and keeping severed - the marshal's difficult north-south rail communications...