Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monday, Russian soldiers stood on the hills ringing Sevastopol. Twenty-two months earlier they had abandoned the city after a historic 245-day siege. Now the Germans were scurrying out, blowing up fuel and ammunition dumps, trying to escape by sea. But Red aircraft ruled the skies as completely as the Red warships controlled the seas. German air transports, seeking to remove high officers, were destroyed on the ground. German barges, laden with fleeing troops, were reduced to splinters by Russian shells and bombs. Rapidly the Red ring around the burning city tightened...
...Marshalls operation required some 1,500,000 barrels of ships' fuel. On Kwajalein one night twelve Jap planes got through, bombed a "particularly explosive target." Damage...
...Railway and Chennault. Over that road, flow all the supplies that get into China from the outside world, including fuel for Claire Chennault's tiny but vastly effective Fourteenth Air Force. The supplies are unloaded at the Assam terminus, transshipped to aircraft and whisked over the Hump, the Allies' aerial makeshift for the lost Burma road...
...main entrance to the lagoon was the sizable town of Koror, mostly composed of laborers' barracks. The U.S. airmen saw the results of Jap labor-two or three islands razed level for fighter and bomber strips, cement jetties from which roads curled back into the jungle to camouflaged fuel and ammunition dumps...
...fight and to transport. His favorite tank is the adaptable T-34, with its broad treads, high belly clearance, a reinforced axle. Its German counterpart, Mark V, or Panther, often bogs down in the mud and breaks its axle. The Red tanks carry Tommy gun crews, equipment and fuel barrels strapped to the side. They also tow caravans of mud sledges, loaded high with food and ammunition...