Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life was all any young unmarried woman could ask for. Occasionally she visited her sisters and delighted her nieces with her brisk wit. They always looked forward to being with "Aunt Milly." Wellesley students called her "Milly Mac," but not to her face...
...Rhine. Field Marshal von Rundstedt, however, observing the Allied power arrayed against him, ordered a withdrawal behind the big river. It was a choice of two evils. Rundstedt's decision meant that the vital industries of the Ruhr would be brought into the front lines-the forward areas exposed to immediate shellfire, and the whole valley to eventual cross-river attack...
...Maas strongholds of Venlo and Roermond. When the Ninth and the Canadian First Army (which includes some English, Scottish and Welsh units) joined forces near Geldern (see map), the pocket was empty except for a few stragglers. Berlin said that the British Second Army had moved forward into the vacuum...
...back & forth. The 4th Division, veterans of Kwajalein, Saipan and Tinian, has taken Hill 382 six times, has lost it five times (they will not lose it again) when Jap fire became unbearable. In spite of this the 4th edged over, around and beyond 382, and the 5th pressed forward relentlessly. Meanwhile Erskine's regiments pierced the center, nearly split northernmost...
Missing. Lieut. General Millard Fillmore ("Miff") Harmon, 57, studious, unstarched commander of Army Air Forces, Pacific; in a converted Liberator bomber; en route from a forward Pacific base to Hawaii. His ability and knack at coordinating Army, Navy and Marine forces prompted Admiral Halsey to call him "Rock of Gibraltar." Successor: his deputy, rugged Major General Willis Henry Hale...