Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pieces in three historic days off the Philippines last October, mortally hurt last week, will never again be able to divert the Navy from close support of amphibious landings. The Navy has virtually completed its main and traditional task-to seek out the enemy's fleet and destroy it. For husky, white-haired Chester Nimitz the rest of the job is mostly ferrying the Army and Marines to the beaches, helping to beat down the remnants of Jap airpower...
Emil: A foul traitor purposely failed to destroy one bridge, as he had been ordered. The half-witted and stupid Americans came across that bridge, and in cowardly manner marched around and past our brave armies. ... In order to rid our holy soil of this vermin, we made a softer peace than our heroic victories warranted...
Departamento 50 also revealed a dream of the chief saboteur that never came off: to destroy the Panama Canal by exploding a Chilean ship in one of the locks...
...hours after the bridge fell came a final ironic note in its role in World War II. The German communique announced that three majors and a lieutenant had been put to death for their failure to destroy...
...first moves in both German and Jap schemes of conquest was to destroy free men's ideas by destroying their books. In 1938, while the Nazis were systematically looting some 400 libraries in Czechoslovakia, the Japs deliberately dropped 50 bombs on China's National Hunan University in Changsha. The National Tsinghua University at Peiping lost many precious books and manuscripts, some irreplaceable...