Word: halts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of the tanks at Vitebsk may have been shifted from the Kiev bulge, as earlier they had been rushed south to halt a Red push into the Dnieper bend. Now the Red command played its old, shrewd game of "dispersing punching." With the German strength in the Kiev bulge sapped to help other sectors, the Russians struck inside the bulge with all their strength...
Outside, a sleet storm had stopped, but the night air was cold-bitter cold for North Carolina. Some passengers climbed out and up the sleet-crusted embankments, but most stayed in the train. Two southbound freight trains screeched to a halt behind the wreck. One man had been killed...
Atlantic. U-boats popped up again, failed again to halt convoys building up invasion strength...
Germany. New Luftwaffe tactics again failed to halt U.S. daylight bombing or save the Germans from huge fighter losses...
Death at Coffin Corner. Happiest hunting was in July, when the Germans struggled to halt the flow of reinforcements for the invasion of Sicily. In nine days at Coffin Corner, twelve attacks on submarines were made, three in a single day. Eight U-boats were sunk or damaged...