Word: dive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Axis forces began pouring into Tunis and Bizerte by sea and air at the rate of 1,000 men a day. On Nov. 11 Anderson's troops ploughed into Bougie. German dive-bombers peppered them, but they rolled steadily over the precipitous spurs of the Atlas Mountains toward the Tunisian border, 175 miles away. British and U.S. paratroops leapfrogged ahead into Tunisian airdromes. In seven days Anderson's English and Scottish soldiers had crossed the border and were meeting the first violent effort of Axis ground troops to stop them. Thirty German tanks and 400 infantrymen attacked...
...Hill of Jefna. On Nov. 19 British paratroops, armored cars and artillery lunged to a point near Medjez-el-Bab, there supported French soldiers in repulsing four successive waves of German troops and dive-bombers. In the south French patrols swept toward the coast and the Gulf...
First the Dorniers, then dive-bombers roar down for the kill, and Captain Kinross' ship goes down with more than half her crew. Then, while the Captain and a few sailors, covered with fuel oil and sprayed with machine-gun bullets, cling precariously to a raft in the scummy water, the camera flashes back to tell the whole story of the ship...
...Medal. Army, 158; Navy, 155. Sample citation (to Lieut. Lloyd A. Smith, for taking part in the Marshall Islands attack): "In the face of heavy anti-aircraft fire he made several successful dive-bombing attacks against enemy ships and shore installations...
Even so, cautious, farsighted Robert Wolcott is not a happy man-he knows that Lukens' plate sales are 100% munitions, will nose-dive at war's end. The white hope: the fabricating divisions, which now account for almost 40% of total sales, are big enough to make Lukens a husky manufacturer of peacetime products...