Word: dempseys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unlike checkers, the enemy pieces that have been hopped over are not thereby swept from the board. They have to be removed by force. It was the job of Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey's British Second Army to push through on the dotted line traced by the chutists, first to the airborne pioneers who dropped near Eindhoven, next to those at Nijmegen (the crossing of the Waal) and finally to those furthest ahead at Arnhem (the crossing...
...Arnhem. Meanwhile General Dempsey's rescue force itself was in a ticklish spot. It had pierced a narrow slit into enemy territory. Behind it the Germans rushed in to cut it off. By furious tank attacks, the Germans at one point seized the road that was Dempsey's supply lifeline. After anxious hours they were thrown back, only to try again at another point. One mile from the slim corridor of advance, airborne Americans smashed a German concentration. A call for help brought rocket-firing aircraft into play against the tanks, and the second thrust was beaten back...
...British Armies (Dempsey's Second and Crerar's Canadian First) stayed under the command of General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery. The boss of the American Twelfth Army Group: lean, spectacled Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, who thus became responsible directly to Eisenhower for the operations of the First Army of Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges, the fleet-footed Third Army of Lieut. General George S. Patton...
...recognize me?" Carpentier said that his Paris nightclub had been taken over by the Nazis, declared that he had cooperated with the enemy only once, and then under pressure, when he refereed a fight in Berlin. His only question: where was his onetime conqueror, Jack Dempsey -"a grand...
...Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges, U.S. First Army Commander; Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, British Second Army Commander; General Montgomery; Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley, U.S. Twelfth Army Group Commander; Lieut. General H. D. G. Crerar, Canadian First Army Commander...