Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...British fingers which have been trying to claw into the western flank of Burma slipped a little...
...North Africa, the Tunisian theater was in a state of suspense. Rommel, beaten and hurt (see p. 25), growled at the British Eighth Army with his artillery, snapped at British and French patrols which had run around the southern end of the Mareth Line to get in on his flank...
...There is a buzzing above our heads. Someone shouts: "They're ours," and there are 20 Kittyhawks and Spitfires above us. Eight German planes are seen flying above our left flank...
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...