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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...
...week's end the job had been well done. Major General Clifford R. Powell learned by reconnaissance that he had less than a division in front of him, won by turning the enemy's right flank while hammering heftily on the left...
Some of the most aristocratic schools in Britain backed the bill: Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Westminster, Shrewsbury, Charterhouse. Their existence depended on its passage. Financial troubles had already forced one public school, Weyrnouth, to close down (TIME, April 28.) The rest were in dire straits, attacked on one flank by fading revenues, on the other by reformers who think the public schools are undemocratic...
...underarmed Greeks suffered dreadful decimation and almost ceased to exist as a fighting force. For the rest of the campaign the Imperial force had to stand virtually alone, since the main force of the Greeks was facing the Italians far across the Pindus Mountains to the west. The flank and rear of the Imperial force was therefore threatened again, and a withdrawal to Thermopylae was ordered...