Word: guadalajara
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...Spanish Civil War was a laboratory for the Russians as it was for the Axis. The Russians watched the German Blitzkrieg rehearsal with military as well as political interest; at Guadalajara their own planes effectively chewed up the Italian armor in the world's first great demonstration of attack aviation. But their planes were behind the times. Soviet design and production were not up to Soviet theory. By the beginning of the Finnish war the Russian planes were still not up to snuff and the job had to be done mainly with that faithful old standby -masses of artillery...
...Mussolini, by convention, the great Italian past meant the great days of the Roman legions. To many an Italian it meant defeat at Guadalajara, in Greece, in Africa. Last week the Stefani news agency reported from the Russian Front that Italian troops attached to the victorious German Army were doing their part...
...officers of the Second and Third Armies, resting from their far from sham labors in far-flung sham battle, the GHQ's Chief of Staff spoke pregnant words. Said Lieut. General Lesley James McNair: "There can be no excuse for another Guadalajara...
...make Guadalajara more than just a foreign word, the Army Air Forces last week put on a terrifying show for 4,000 groundling officers (including more than 100 generals...
...show was over. Guadalajara was no longer quite such a foreign word...