Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fields of Ploesti; Constanta, Rumania's chief port on the Black Sea; Bucharest, the "little Paris" of the Balkans. Worst of all, by choosing to fight for the Wallachian plain, Adolf Hitler had lost the better part of 30 divisions -which might otherwise have pulled back to defend Germany proper. Moreover the Russians, now heading for a junction with Marshal Tito's forces in Yugoslavia, threatened to cut off all the remaining Wehrmacht divisions-estimated at 15 to 20-in the southern Balkan peninsula...
...Germans had done their best to defend Ploesti with heavy smoke screens, a formidable thicket of ack-ack, a strong fleet of fighters. In addition to an unknown total of U.S. airmen killed, the number shot down and captured alive in Rumania was last week disclosed as more than a thousand. The Germans had repaired bomb damage with their usual nimbleness, had covered vital pipelines and machinery with massive roofings of concrete...
...hurried the Führer's trouble-shooting Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel. Old Regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy listened to the emissary from the north. Then, under his strong hand, a cabinet of Magyar generals took over. Warned the new Premier. Colonel General Vitez Geza Lakatos: "Hungarians! We must defend our own frontiers. . . . We must no longer think, 'You can trust the Germans to pull...
...Then Dunkirk had come and Britain stood alone against totalitarian might and night. The cigar chewer had said: ". . . We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry...
...operating with the fleet. U.S. yards have turned out more than 100 (some of which have gone to the British). In Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher's fast-moving, hard-hitting Task Force 58 there are more CVEs than CVs (the big ones). Navy officials are now glad to defend the Casablancas, the last of which was delivered in July. Said one admiral: "Without them the U.S. Navy would not be fighting today west of the Marianas...