Word: en
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Simple Plan. The immediate strategy of the invasion was clear, simple, masterly: 1) to seize beachheads on a sector of coast well within efficient fighter- plane range and economical shipping range of southern England; 2) to join and deep en them, thereby making a solid bridge head; 3) to drive southwest across the base of the Cotentin Peninsula, severing it from the rest of Nazi-held France; 4) to swing north and take (from the rear) the great port of Cherbourg. In the first week, everything depended on the Allies' ability to land enough sup plies on the obstacle-strewn...
Ernie Pyle's first invasion dispatch, which reached the U.S. four days late, was written aboard a landing craft en route to France. In it he described newsmen's pre-invasion sensations with his usual disarming frankness...
...eyed Gunnar Skog (a pseudonym) was a schoolboy of 16 when the Nazis overran Norway four years ago. Like thousands of others among his 2,900,000 countrymen, he went into the underground to fight the German-Quisling tyranny. Recently he escaped to Sweden, then to Britain. Last week, en route through New York to "Little Norway" in Canada, where he expects to become a Royal Air Force navigator, he told this story of life under the Germans...
...rusty as their scanty ammunition. In the years of stalemate no adequate defenses had been built, no preparations made to launch a guerrilla campaign in the enemy's rear, once he began his big push. Some Chinese troops-notably those of plucky little General T'ang En-po-were better than others; but none fared well...
Japan's first blow in mid-April fell on tough, little Tang En-po, one of Chung king's ablest generals. But Tang's tactical skill could not make up for the inadequate weapons of his men, for the lack of air cover, for the incredibly meager trans port facilities...