Word: destroyed
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This broadcast was for Jap ears only. Speaking for the War Ministry, General Sato said that in order to destroy Americans, "who are stubborn and like to fight," Japan must prepare to bomb the U.S. mainland. Said cruel-eyed General Sato: "To destroy the fighting spirit of the American people is most important for the conclusion of the war." Furthermore, said he, the American fighting spirit is based on American productive power ("the greatest in the world"), and bombing is the way to destroy that power. General Sato then added a qualification which was scarcely noticed by the U.S. press...
...planes were desperately needed to search out and destroy Nazi submarines now operating in mid-ocean (see p. 30). To Franklin Roosevelt the value of aircraft against submarines was obvious: . Britain's land-based planes had already pushed the U-boats beyond their own range. On the probability that converted carriers-50, 75, 100 of them if necessary-could push them out of the water altogether, the President was willing to gamble. If they worked, the Commander in Chief of the Navy could hold out his hand to Mr. Kaiser. It was their joint idea...
...Europe. Every Italian and every German on the battle fields of Tunisia knew that each day he could prolong the defense of Tunisia was postponing by one more day the Allied invasion of Europe. And for the Allies, for men like Lieut. General Patton, there was urgency to destroy this stubborn Tunisian delaying force in time to make 1943 the decisive, if not final, year...
...lost 175,000 dead and 137,650 captured. Using the relatively reliable figures for prisoners, this means that 40% of the total casualties were inflicted at Stalingrad. It appeared that the Germans had sacrificed land in favor of men, and that the Russian winter campaign had done more to destroy Hitler's prestige than to destroy Hitler's force. of the three blasts of a tank siren in the opening measures. It did not smell like Virginia in the spring. It did not feel like that night in Washington when Patton said to some officers of the General...
...whole trend of this policy for a dozen years has been more and more away from the Trotsky policy of "world revolution" and the spreading of Communism throughout the globe. In his great statesmanlike speech of November 6, 1942, he said, "It is not our aim to destroy Germany, for it is impossible to destroy Germany, just as it is impossible to destroy Russia, but the Hitlerite State can and should be destroyed...