Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Roscoe Mayo Holdeman, superlatives became a habit. At 21, he was the youngest, most talkative, most engaging U.S. Army major that the good people of northeast Mississippi had ever seen. Above his officer's pinks and forest-green shirt he wore the most dazzling decorations (the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Purple Heart). He had lived through the most spine-tingling experiences imaginable, on all possible battlefronts (strafing Nazi tanks in North Africa, being rescued by the French underground after a crash landing in occupied Europe, shooting it out with Jap Zeros over the South Pacific). When red-haired...
...last week the guerrillas cleared patches on the damp forest floor. Then a fleet of Russian transports came overhead, and spewed men and weapons down on the clearings. The men re-formed into columns, and together with the guerrillas struck toward Cherkassy...
Hastily, the German Command threw tanks into a counterattack. The Russians were dislodged from a village they had already occupied, and driven back into the forest. But what they were meant to do, they had done; while the German attention was diverted, Russian infantrymen crossed the Dnieper, seized a bridgehead between the areas where the Red Army broke across the river in the last month. On to this foothold poured reinforcements of airborne and parachute troops...
When a new base is established-usually in a forest remote from potential targets-the entire civilian populace is moved out. The headquarters is camouflaged so well that Red aircraft often fly over it without detecting it. The antiaircraft batteries have orders not to fire unless attacked. But when Russian planes appear, Hitler immediately retires to a shelter...
...dark night in an even darker forest they could be seen stirring a black potion made up of vouchers, pay receipts, money requisitions, cash books (etc.) and a magic liquid. This they managed to slip to the pretty, but not too pretty, intelligent but not too intelligent wife of the handsome young CPA in the form of a cooling daquirl cocktail...