Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chinese strategy was superb. As they fell back toward Changsha, leading the Japanese to believe that they were still following the same old no-frontal-attack theories, the Chinese destroyed every rail line, every road. The Japanese blithely advanced over this torn-up area until they were in the worst military position known to man: on a thin front without communications behind. That was when the Chinese struck. The Japanese had nothing...
...stage. But changes in war technique have not changed an old military axiom: you cannot expect a unit which has lost more than one man in five to continue effective. It must be withdrawn from action, given two months' rest, completely reorganized. One reason that World War I fell into so many clinches and deadlocks was that the 20% Axiom was often ignored. The Lost Battalion, having been reduced from 660 men to 190, was yanked out, given two days' rest, sent into the lines again. Never again can a commander who hopes to win a war afford...
...casualty list of up to the soth of September 1939, which will not change materially, the total losses for the Army, Navy and Air Force, including officers, are as follows: 10,572 killed; 30,322 wounded; 3,404 missing. Unfortunately, of those missing a certain number who fell into Polish hands will probably be found to have been massacred and killed...
...planes hadn't really gone away. They doubled back, and flying along as low as 200 feet, opened up their machine guns. The women, in absolute panic, tried to run away. The ones who fell down from fear apparently escaped. But two were killed...
Near Oklahoma City, Okla., a truck rolled downhill out of control, snapped off a pole bearing a high-voltage wire, which fell across a metal sign, which touched a barbed wire fence, which set fire to a patch of grass, on which Farmer R. M. W. Cody threw a pail of water, which splashed on the electrified fence, electrocuting Farmer Cody...