Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been carrying on his back. Then he rushed forward and with a violent motion threw a potato masher grenade into the trench. As the officer rushed away smoke rose from the trench. Then bits of dust began kicking up around the officer from a machine gun on the far flank of the trench which the officer had not been able to see. We watched him crawl back, put on his gear again and then collect his three...
After 15 or 20 minutes, when no more planes appeared, we crawled out and around to the right flank and headed once more toward Troina...
...Division (veterans of Tunisia's Long Stop Hill), the soth Northumbrians and the 51st Highlanders. Between Centuripe and Paterno they tangled in the hardest struggle of the campaign. But the men that punched forward and the men left behind broke the Etna line, tore away Catania's flank...
...Germans' time in Sicily was running out. After the Americans and Canadians had turned the Axis flank back upon Mt. Etna, the Allies struck for the kill. To his Britons, attacking at Catania, General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery said: "We will now drive the Germans from Sicily. Into the battle with a stout heart. Good luck...
...toughest fight of the Sicily campaign. A sergeant, his face a mass of weariness, came up the hill at the head of G company. The colonel quickly called him: "Get here quickly. Go over there to the left, contact H and F company and look out for the left flank." The sergeant went over the brow of the hill. Only four or five soldiers were close behind him. Somewhere below, the rest of the column was struggling upward with painful slowness...