Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What is the real story of the Russo-German non-aggression pact of 1939? Of Hitler's fatal decision to attack Russia? Did the German General Staff oppose the Russian...
...Both the fatal runs came after two were out in the first half of the second when three successive singles provided the winning margin. The only other scoring came in the eighth on a combination of a walk, an error, a ground-out and double play...
...Eisenhower had won a classic victory, one of history's greatest. By this week it had taken his main forces into the heart of Germany for the fatal thrusts. But the measure of the victory was back in the Ruhr basin. There last week the last cohesive resistance died; Dusseldorf fell. The bag of prisoners was astonishing: more than 317,000. There was no complete count of the enemy dead; the total would probably be more than 25.000. Thus the Ruhr had yielded a greater harvest of annihilation than the Russians' tide-turning triumph at Stalingrad, with...
Dead Men Make No Reports. Several factors had ordained secrecy about the Kamikaze attacks. At first they were made by only one or two planes at a time; they might have been merely a show of fatal bravado by individual Jap airmen. Obviously no suicide pilot ever returned to report. The Jap command had no way of knowing how the attacks turned out, and the Navy took pains not to tell...
...corps is not made up entirely of specially recruited personnel with only enough flight training to carry out a fatal mission. Many attacks are at night; it takes skilled pilots to attack a target in the dark...