Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with this defensive hedgehog prepared, the Japs swiftly and without warning cut it loose to shift for itself. The crack Eleventh Japanese Army, which had spearheaded the great East China drive last year, was withdrawn from the connecting corridor. Then the Japs abandoned Nanning: every strategic purpose for which the corridor had been conceived was lost...
Wedemeyer and his staff have received unprecedented cooperation from the Generalissimo. From the beginning, Chiang appreciated Wedemeyer's cordiality, recognized his brilliance. When the American, in a daring battle maneuver last fall, flew crack Chinese units from Burma* and the Chinese Communist border region (with Chiang's assent) to stop the Japanese advance in Kweichow, Chiang's opinion was confirmed. How well Lieut. General Wedemeyer has succeeded in the diplomatic part of his job was indicated last week when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek accepted an invitation to be Wedemeyer's guest at supper. Not since...
Under dashing Major General Terry Allen (now commander of the crack 104th Timberwolf Division), the ist took Oran and fought across Algeria. It ran into its first hard going in Tunisia, and learned there the lesson all fighting men learn: that the last touch of fighting polish is won only in battle against a stubborn...
...mechanized outfit the ist Cavalry Division left Fort Bliss in 1943, bound for the Pacific. Its commander was burly Major General Innis Palmer ("Bull") Swift, a veteran spit-&-polish horse soldier ("It doesn't take a damn bit of practice to live like a hog") who made a crack record in combat...
...Troops were not frittered away, or abandoned. Crack armies were moved into the rear battle area ready to support the forces actually engaged...