Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here is the grim ground where last week, in their third great attempt, the Allies again failed to crack the bottleneck in the road to Rome...
Next day the Germans poured in crack parachute troops and the battle degenerated into ding-dong fighting in the town and on the hills, each side gaining little and suffering heavy losses. Net result: the ugly situation shown above...
Less than two years ago, sharp, angry Colonel Hugh J. Knerr of the Army Air Forces was in the doghouse. One of the air arm's crack staff officers, Hugh Knerr had been retired for physical disabilities in 1939, had forthwith begun to write and speak. Target of most of his word bombardment: the admirals of the Navy and their limited view of air power. His remedy for this situation: a separate air force, poison to any devout Navy...
Fighting Chinese. Chinese and U.S. troops worked well together. Cabled TIME Correspondent James Shepley from the Burmese front: "The crack 18th Japanese division made three frantic attempts to cross the Nambyu River. . . . As the Japs poured into the stream in the cold light of the jungle winter moon the Americans mowed them down with machine-gun and rifle fire. At daybreak the river was swollen with 300 to 500 Jap bodies. Merrill lost seven killed, 37 wounded...
...record is in danger. This week Joe Foss turned up again in the South Pacific. He had just taken command of one of the Marines' crack Corsair squadrons, was on the prowl again...