Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friday morning before dawn's crack they headed for him again. To their surprise, 450 miles off the coast, they saw below them not just the Jap Fleet but a Donnybrook Fair that had all the earmarks of a private fight between the Jap and U.S. Navies. A U.S. flotilla had taken...
Corregidor was through. Five months after the Jap's first attack, the last island of formal resistance in the Philippines was going. An army of more than 10,000 crack troops, wasted by want, without hope of relief, was going...
...paper, made an important disclosure of one reason why last year's assault on Leningrad failed. Only 21 German divisions were used along a 200-mile front. If supply roads have been improved sufficiently this winter, Hitler might try to throw in enough more men and machines to crack Leningrad defenses despite its strong garrison and hard-fighting citizen army...
Under the wreckage of his plane lay one of Douglas MacArthur's finest officers, one of the U.S. press's crack war correspondents. Slim, hard-flying Brigadier General Harold H. ("Pursuit") George was taken to a hospital where he died soon afterward. His comrade in the grim battle for Luzon and the last-ditch fight on Bataan, Correspondent Melville Jacoby of TIME & LIFE (see p. 55), was killed instantly...
Sentimental General Tough, stocky, sentimental James Harold Doolittle, Sc.D., man of culture and scrappy legend of U.S. aviation, received a present from the White House last week. The present: the star of a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army Air Forces. To Jimmy Doolittle, onetime crack amateur boxer, who turned his back on a fat job in commercial aviation to get a shot at the Jap, this came at an appropriate time: within the week of the bombing of Tokyo...