Word: defend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting on Leyte was in many ways the most remarkable of the Pacific war. The Japs made only a halfhearted attempt to defend the beaches, then fled inland in disorganized haste. Before they could regroup for a real fight, they had lost half their total force - 14,405 killed and wounded, by General Douglas Mac-Arthur's count...
Aachen was not only the first large German city (peacetime pop. 160,000) ever taken by U.S. troops, it was also the first formal surrender of German arms on German soil to foreign invaders since the Napoleonic Wars. Eastward, the Nazis sullenly prepared to defend Düren and Jülich on the way to Cologne...
...Security. Here Tom Dewey successfully moved to make U.S. foreign policy both positive and bipartisan. He had loosed a blast at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, expressing fears that Dumbarton Oaks would degenerate into a Big Power conference serving only the Big Powers' ends. When Cordell Hull rose to defend himself, Dewey promptly sent Manhattan Lawyer John Foster Dulles as his emissary to the State Department. The U.S. people, who had known little of Foster Dulles, learned that this scholarly, experienced lawyer might be Tom Dewey's choice for Secretary of State. Whatever exuberant hatchet jobs were subsequently done...
...fate of Budapest and of Vienna, 135 miles beyond it, depended upon how much the Germans could spare to defend them. With Germany's east and west fronts in peril, how much was left for the south? Would Hungary's 35 divisions follow Horthy's line? Or would they follow the new government of Ferenc Szalasi, leader of the Fascist Arrow Cross...
...Balikpapan raid (second in a week) showed that the Japs were still fiercely determined to defend the "Ploesti of the Pacific." As the Liberators crossed Celebes they were picked up by Jap "Bettys" (fast twin-engined bombers) which radioed instructions ahead to fighters. Forty Zeros were ready for the U.S. flyers at Balikpapan and, though 19 Japs were shot down, seven Liberators with 70 airmen went down in flames...