Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From then on Bill was almost continuously in the thick of the fighting with one or another of our Armies-took his chances with our men at Cherbourg, Saint Lô, Avranches, Orleans, Nijmegen, Aachen, the Hürtgen Forest ("that was the nastiest fighting...
...biologists at Uncle Sam's Fish College think the plan will work for virtually all the Columbia's estimated 240,000 Chinooks-though it may result in a punier breed of fish. But oldtime fishermen are skeptical. Said Forest Ranger Grady Miller, gazing moodily at a Wallowa Lake dam that has completely destroyed a once-great salmon fishing ground: "Civilization and salmon...
Bill Edwards, who left Hayti, Mo. (pop. 2,628) to fight in Europe, was on a night patrol in Huertgen Forest when a mine blew his foot off. He lay where he had fallen, keeping his mouth shut so as not to betray his comrades to German infantrymen near by. Artillery shells whistled overhead in a constant barrage. A shell fragment struck his good...
...tired; they needed rest which they were not getting. The doughty 1st and 4th Infantry Divisions, which had held the shoulders of Rundstedt's salient, were still fighting last week (the 4th had been caught in the Ardennes while resting from the struggle for the Hürtgen Forest). At this time, they simply could not be spared. Their losses and those of other outfits had been almost fully made up. One division, which had had two regiments badly chewed up, got two complete new regiments. In addition to piecemeal replacements flowing through the usual channels, service units...
...utterly beyond recall. This time, Berlin would be lost for a good deal longer than two days. Frederick's very bones, enshrined at Potsdam, were in danger of falling into Russian hands. The Nazis removed them from the Potsdam vault to a secret place in the Thuringian Forest...