Word: drove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the Caucasus, the Russians drove home the first major blow of the spring. Under an umbrella of air power, Red divisions stormed Hitler's vital Kuban bridgehead, crashed through Krimsk, 15 miles northeast of Novorossüsk, and split the German forces in two. Three hundred barges full of Red marines landed on the north shore of the Taman Peninsula, attacked the Germans from the rear. These successes endangered Hitler's last position on the eastern shore of the Black...
Greece. Guerrillas drove Axis occupation troops from several villages in the Olympus area. A punitive expedition of Germans and Italians was repulsed. Axis authorities executed 15 hostages after an other fight with Partisans...
...base in the Army's Desert Training Center (Calif.), Captain Francis E. Rogan made an inspection, finally commented: "The camouflage is only fair. They'd better work on it." Then he drove his staff car smack into the outfit's camouflaged staff headquarters, crashed one wheel into a dugout room...
...tracing telephone wires, police found two other houses which contained hidden bookie offices. Outside one of them, two WOCD men sat in a car waiting for the police to come out, when two members of the gang drove up. They threatened the students, but "Threatened to no avail...
...Fear. One fear is always with the Japanese Government and people: that Russia will attack them. No one in Japan has any illusions about the nation's vulnerability to bombing from Russia's Siberian bases. This fear increased late last year, when the Russians drove back the Germans and the North African campaign turned against the Axis. The Japanese think and talk of war with Russia only in terms of Russian attack; the idea that Japan might be so rash as to attack the Soviet Union is never seriously considered by the Japanese people...