Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French prisoners and their captors might easily have been just another set of theatrical animal-crackers. Acted and directed as they are, they tell a good deal about the courage and fear of men confronted by a calculated effort to destroy or misuse their manhood...
Over the radio from-Moscow, in persuasive Austrian accents, came suggestions to saboteurs: wreck your railways and destroy your roads; Hitler needs them to maintain his fronts in Italy and Yugoslavia, to get his food from Hungary and his oil from Rumania. Almost at once there were reports of breaks in the line from Graz to Klagenfurt in the southeast...
...fighting. Essence of the Nelson touch was the order: "Close with the enemy." Allied naval officers still revere and in some cases (notably Cunningham of the Mediterranean and Halsey of the South Pacific) still have the Nelson touch: their one desire is to find and destroy the enemy fleet. But not the Japs...
This is not necessarily a defensive doctrine. Nelson's spirit has been matched by some Japanese naval officers; the difference is one of strategic doctrine. Nelson believed in destroying the enemy fleet. The Japs believe in letting their armies destroy the enemy's land force. Supply lines are the essential of offense, since armies travel on their stomachs and win by firing ammunition which must be transported to them...
...London blitz damaged but did not destroy the Tussaud museum on Marylebone Road. In the ruinous days of September 1940, a bomb blasted two of the museum's rooms into reportedly picturesque and possibly symbolic confusion: Hitler lurched on his beam-ends, his head chipped to its core. Göring's resplendent tunic was ripped to shreds and his countless medals strewn on the floor. Goebbels lay on his back, staring at nothing. But firm and unshaken, the blue eyes of Winston Churchill gazed blinkless at the scene...