Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eighth Army trudged into Gessapolina, a hilltop hamlet on Italy's Adriatic flank. War had wrecked the terraced cluster of dwellings, scattered their brick walls, shattered their oaken rafters. Through the debris, toward Allied soldiers gathered at the municipal piazza hurried five Italians. One of them paused to wash his hands in the piazza's muddy fountain. Another cried...
...Gangrene. To a skilled tactician like Manstein, today's defeat was less grave than its impact on tomorrow. Already, his fleeing men had far outpaced the German armies in the north, exposing their flank. With each day, too, the position of his 20-odd divisions caught in the Dnieper bend became more desperate. A lone railroad of supply and escape was in grave danger...
This was the first official hint of what may well be Douglas MacArthur's plan to reduce Rabaul, the Jap Southwest Pacific stronghold. The Admiralties lie on Rabaul's western flank. Kavieng, at the top of New Ireland Island, lies 150 miles to Rabaul's north, is a way station from Truk. Allied bases on the Admiralties and New Ireland, combined with bases already established in the Solomons, New Guinea and New Britain, will mean the encirclement of Rabaul. Last week the air-and-sea pincers were pressed from the Solomons, where a 17-months' campaign...
...great port of Naples and the great airfields of Foggia. The General's implication: these, more than any other prize, put Anglo-American forces in position for a flank attack on southern France and/or the Balkan Adriatic coast. Presumably from Foggia's web of runways last week, Allied planes thrust an arm over Marshal Tito's troops, hammered the Nazi rail junction at Sofia and dromes near Athens...
...night, early in the Empress Augusta Bay operation, Sergeant Azine's company slipped into the jungle to hold a "road-block," an outpost guarding the approach to the Marines' beachhead. Miasmal swamp and forest hemmed the area. Most of the company bivouacked smack on the trail. Flank units took position in the jungle; they alone might use firearms, because they alone could shoot without danger of hitting their comrades. Marines on the trail were limited to knives, entrenching tools, fists, or any weapon that would do a job silently...