Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from won, he asserted that Britain and America will have to take the war more seriously. "The strain on the Russian line is tremendous; the need for a second front is daily growing more acute. To date, the guerrilla armies of Jugoslavia are doing more to divert the military strength of the Axis than the United States and Britain...
...forces defending the capital to keep them from relieving Timoshenko. Then, on the Kalinin front northwest of Moscow, the Germans began still another drive. It was geared for speed: fleets of Luftwaffe transports swarmed into rear-line fields to supply the mobile Nazi forces. This served immediately to divert the Red Army from the crucial south; it was also a necessary preliminary to any attempt to encircle and conquer Moscow itself...
...full cognizance of our disadvantages as well as our advantages. We do not underrate the task. Transportation of the fighting forces, together with transportation of munitions of war and supplies still constitutes the major problem. It can be said that the coming operations, which were discussed in detail, will divert German strength from the attack on Russia...
...Coming operations . . . will divert German strength from the attack on Russia...
...fact that disturbed the U.S.: this was no small-scale attempt to divert attention. The Japanese had disregarded such difficulties as long and arduous supply lines, torrential rains, miasmic fogs, 80-mile gales, scarce anchorages, flinty soil, volcanic mountains, a savage shoreline...