Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the Los Banos Internment Camp. Yesterday we were to have eaten banana stalks. That was all and the Japs said there would be no more food. "About sunrise our planes came over, dropped paratroops and engaged our guards. The guerrillas also attacked, and during the fighting our tanks drove in through our prison walls. We were hurried into these tanks and started out. It was a wonderful sight to see this string of 70 tanks in perfect formation traveling steadily toward freedom through the water. "Imagine 150 American boys rescuing and transporting over 2,000 prisoners...
...faster the armies drove through Germany the happier grew the U.S. Senate. By the time Jimmy Byrnes had quit his job as War Mobilizer, after explaining that V-E day was now in sight (see below), Senators in both parties were beaming. Now was the time to face the politically troublesome manpower issue. The Senate faced it by defeating the compromise manpower bill...
...Last. There was no overall pattern to German resistance. Along the Netherlands front, in the crisscross of canals, Canadians had to battle for every yard as they drove to link up with another drop of airborne troops. There Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz, with his 50,000 troops, faced certain isolation. The Germans blew dikes, set up new lines behind 400 square miles of flooded lowlands. Blaskowitz meant to fight to the last...
Units of Major General Rapp Brush's 40th Division landed on the west coast of Negros, fourth largest of the islands. One column drove northeast to capture the capital, Bacolod, another moved to a junction with Filipino guerrillas...
Marshal Alexander M. Vasilevsky cleaned up the largest of the East Prussian pockets and drove with four armies on Königsberg. Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky took Danzig, first city to fall to the Germans on the first day of World War II. Other Russian troops stormed into Gdynia and found 9,000 dispirited Germans lined up on the docks, waiting to be evacuated on ships that never came...