Word: harassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sardinia, reinforced by the enemy by air from the continent, could seriously harass any Allied invasion of Italy. It is a big parallelogram of more than 9,000 square miles, nine-tenths rugged mountains, with so few harbors and such bad communications that its defense rests on isolated strong points. Cagliari is one of the Mediterranean's major naval bases, La Maddalena a minor one. There are several important airfields, such as Elmas and Monserrato, near these bases...
...much to relieve Malta. They can cover any final blow at Rommel's rear. They can launch the continuous bombings of Italy which Winston Churchill promised last week. They can pound the Nazis in southern France. They can keep tabs on the French fleet at Toulon. They can harass, if not prevent, any Axis move through Spain toward Gibraltar and the Mediterranean ports of Spain. With ground troops they can move upon Spanish Morocco if Franco wavers in his neutrality. By the Allies in North Africa, the Allies in Britain and the Allies in Russia, every foot of Nazi...
...Japs had managed to land 75-mm. artillery pieces and to register their fire on Henderson Field. Artillery fire and dive-bombing could harass the Japs' guns, but there was only one sure way of silencing them: to go out and swipe the guns...
...behind the German lines. He is more of a flat-terrain soldier than a mountaineer, but the essentials of the battle for the Caucasus will be fought in the approaches and. because the Germans will not be able to move much in winter, this tough Soviet Cossack will probably harass the Germans more than the actual battle will...
...They conserved their power. They sent medium tanks, among which were U.S. crews getting their first lesson in actual combat, to harass, work on the flanks, blunt the Sturm without meeting it in head-on collision. General Grants operated by U.S. crews waylaid one column of Mark Ills and Mark IVs and routed them. (Said Private Barney Rossi, of Brooklyn: "If we'd had our newest tanks we'd have moidered dem bums...