Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brigadier General Otto P. Weyland's Nineteenth Tactical Air Command. Patton had told Weyland his right flank would be exposed and he wanted "Opie" Weyland to cover it. Weyland did. For three weeks his aircraft kept some 30,000 Germans pinned down south of the Loire, while Patton drove on. The hopeless German commander finally surrendered. When he gave up his sword to a Ninth Army commander, says the report, he "asked, to maintain German honor, that General Weyland's aircraft, which had conquered his units, should fly over his men before they laid down their arms...
...city stretches, fortifications block the streets and byways. When I drove from Berlin it took me 90 minutes to travel six miles because the barricades are so thick it is difficult to pass them. . . . If everything goes 'according to plan,' one may predict Berlin's conquest will require six to eight weeks...
...from the south drove Major General Verne D. Mudge's ist Cavalry troopers, battering their way through the modern-style apartment houses of the fashionable Ermita district. They fought their way up through the balconied Manila Hotel from the first floor to the penthouse where General Douglas MacArthur once lived...
Down from the north drove Major General Robert S. Beightler's 37th Infantry Division, to capture and lose the three-storied City Hall four times before finally taking it for good. In the battered stone Post Office they fought the Japanese into the pitch-dark basement and finished them off with Tommy guns, mortars and grenades, setting flares ricocheting around the walls for a few moments of light...
...belching their projectiles against smoking, dust-covered Iwo. When the first landing craft nosed into Futatsune Beach at 9 a.m., the opposition was thin and scattered. The Japs had pulled back from the black-ash beach, but they were calling their shots. In the next two hours, the leathernecks drove inland 600 yards to No. 1 airfield. The farther they went, as the day wore on, the stiffer the opposition...