Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slow Approach. On all three sides of the city the advance on Cherbourg was like that. In the last five kilometers there was a series of such forts; an outfit might spend an afternoon moving up a few hundred yards and taking one fort and its supporting strong points. When the frontline troops had pushed on, demolition squads blew the concrete blockhouses to rubble, lest German patrols infiltrate at night and man the forts again...
...least 1,000 guns were battering the elaborate French-built defenses of Cherbourg. Infantrymen with grenades, bazookas and dynamite charges cleaned out the inland strongholds, Fort du Roule and Octeville. From the sea a naval task force, including battleships and cruisers, stood in to batter and silence the big harbor installations, Fort des Flamands and Pelee Island...
...studious officer, he took Army courses and taught them, became a crack instructor at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, served as chief of staff of the 43rd Infantry Division. He volunteered for airborne service in 1942 and speedily won the respect of the paratroopers who had goggled at his stature...
...Younger Generation 2nd Lieut. John Eisenhower, just out of West Point and expecting a 30-day furlough before reporting to Fort Benning's Infantry School, instead realized the dream of every shavetail: by direct orders of General George C. Marshall, he was given a 30-day assignment on the personal staff of the Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces. The Lieutenant got to England in time to visit the beachhead with his father...
Last week General Emmons moved on again. Ramrod-stiff Major General Charles H. Bonesteel, fresh from the command of the infantry school at Fort Benning, took over the bustling Pacific Coast, now safe from Jap attack. Delos Emmons' new job was kept a secret. Airmen wondered whether the Army Air Forces was going to get capable, pernickety General Emmons back again...