Word: flank
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been made the week before, when Montgomery's Eighth Army had forced its way deep into Tunisia and virtually shut Rommel in. On his map General Patton could see where the Eighth Army, having succeeded again, was resting again. The masterful forced march around Rommel's right flank (see p. 27) had shaken Rommel out of the Mareth Line - but had not destroyed...
...treacherous sink of Chott el-Fedjedj hemmed Rommel's inland flank. Just north of the chott were the U.S. troops of Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., threatening to drive down out of the hills, cut across to the seacoast and block the German retreat. At Bou Hamran they were only 55 miles from the coast; in their position east of Maknassy, only...
...occupied by the invader in the first year of the war, the Japanese have in the past two months car ried on a campaign against Chinese guer rilla forces who had assisted in smuggling. Operations against the Chinese border from Burma seemed designed to consolidate Japanese positions on the flank that is most convenient for Allied reentry...
...British fingers which have been trying to claw into the western flank of Burma slipped a little...
Kharkov was of supreme importance. Without it, the German salient reaching eastward into the Donets basin would be vulnerable to flank attack from the north, the German north-south lines would be seriously interrupted. With it, the Germans would be in the best position for an advance (if advance the Germans can) into the soft area between Stalingrad and Moscow. Early this week the Russians admitted that they had lost Kharkov...