Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi conquest of Russia (wrote the analysts in the White House) would: 1) remove armed resistance from Germany's eastern flank; 2) extend Germany's flank to the Pacific; 3) furnish Germany needed resources from Russia and the Middle East; 4) allow an all-out attack on the British Isles; 5) allow a drive for Nazi conquest of all Northern Africa; 6) strengthen German propaganda peace moves...
Moving them up was no easy job Cloudbursts of both rain and bombs had played havoc with the 400 miles of communications the Germans had now strung out behind them and 2,000 miles from flank to flank. Mechanized equipment was getting just as tired as human equipment; it also had to be replaced...
...assaulting trucks drove right to the swamp. "Smoky Joe's" engineers quickly cut pine and scrub oak trees, in 25 minutes laid a corduroy road across the bog, swept into the astounded 39th (white) Infantry on the Ninth's southern flank. Again the engineers wove through and around the enemy lines, ran some of their truck-tanks clear to the division command post (but caught no generals; they had fled). Before the games ended, in horrid confusion, the 41st was credited with halting the Ninth Division's planned attack for at least a day, perhaps disrupting...
First: this force would be charged with warding off threats to Greenland and the rest of North America's northern flank...
...first Beaufort to reach the designated bearing was piloted by a flight sergeant from flattened Coventry and navigated by a sergeant from peaceful Saskatchewan. The pair saw the streamlined Panzer ship, closely screened by one destroyer to the fore and two on each flank. The destroyers on the flanks hung close abeam-so close that putting a torpedo home would not be easy...