Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best Platform. The Roer River flows into the Maas at Roermond. Last week the British Second Army moved up to the west bank all the way from the confluence down to the U.S. Ninth Army's left flank above Jülich. The Ninth also took up some slack...
...pattern of thought underlying the Japanese tactics on Luzon became clearer last week. On the northeast flank, the enemy yielded nothing; every yard of uptilted ground captured by Major General Innis P. ("Bull") Swift's I Corps was bitterly contested. Under attack from both west and south, Rosario (see map) had been a no man's land for days, battered by naval, air and artillery bombardment, before it fell. Even from there, the road to Baguio would be uphill all the way. The Japs had big guns emplaced. Though some of these were knocked out, the enemy clung...
...still fading backward faster than any U.S. optimist had dared to hope. Major General Oscar W. Griswold's XIV Corps swept ahead, the 37th (Ohio) Division under Major General Robert S. Beightler on the left, and the 40th under Major General Rapp Brush on the right. With its flank protected by the Buckeyes, the 40th rolled into Clark Field in time for General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to announce its capture on his 65th birthday. With more than a dozen runways, Clark was the greatest air base in the Southwest Pacific. The Japanese had fortified 30 caves...
...sealing off the East Prussian flank to their main drives toward the Reich proper, the Russians already had a victory of the first magnitude. If they could complete the liquidation of the pocket as speedily, the victory would be even greater. It would shorten the Russian line by some 300 miles, release thousands of Red Army troops, might provide first-rate ports for Russian supplies...
...city. Thus, in their 19-mile strip of the Rhine's west bank, the French defenders of Strasbourg were squeezed on both sides. At week's end the French in the Belfort-Mulhouse area attempted a diversion by smacking the Colmar pocket's broad southern flank. Launched in a heavy snowstorm, this attack cut a deep gash in the enemy lines before it was slowed...