Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gela: "Loss of the planes was 'one of those things' that will happen in a highly complicated operation . . . that could only be explained adequately by giving a blueprint of the plans. . . ." The General cited commanders' morale: "" . . Continual harping on ... error will destroy boldness. . . ." (The Gela blunder was kept in General Surles's censorship bag for eight months, popped out only after a staff sergeant, back from the front, opened...
...battles now being fought over Germany are aimed to destroy Nazi fighter plane strength and production. . . . [That] is sought so that when Allied ground and air forces seek to force a further foothold on continental Europe they will have to contend ultimately with the German ground force, not with the German ground and air forces...
...admitting this limited aim, official Washington was far less sanguine than air enthusiasts used to sound. Lieut. General Ira Eaker, September 1942: "I believe it is possible to destroy the enemy from the air." General Henry H. Arnold, June 1943: "We are going to end [the war] and end it soon by bombing military objectives consistently and with the maximum destructive power that we possess...
...airfields. Before the early morning mists had lifted on Monday, March 20, German infantry motored into Hungary, deployed to seize every important rail and road center and all communications. Abruptly Budapest Radio ceased using as a theme the Rakoczi March with its impudent first line: "God of the Hungarians, destroy the German Army...
...come from Russia. Last December, in New York, Jan Masaryk said: "We intend to live our own life in our own way and we know that Russia will respect our way of living." And added: "Russia is fighting with us . . . to destroy once for all time the German Drang nach Osten and we know that without Russia in Europe there is no stopping...