Word: harassed
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...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...
General Auchinleck, in command of the battered British Army which had been pushed back within fighter-plane range of Alexandria, began to harass the Germans to keep them from resting. His New Zealanders dove into the southern flank of the German line, pushing it back. Rommel patiently shifted one of his crack Nazi mechanized divisions from the short to the long side of his line, to prevent being hemmed in too close to the sea. Then, at dawn one morning, Auchinleck's linesmen cracked the short side, drove through a division of Italians, advanced five miles in 90 minutes...
...raids into Italy, hitting in the vicinity of Fiume and Trieste, were part of guerrilla operations that constantly harass Axis communication and supply lines, keep the Italians in jittery jeopardy. Russian reports said that several railway stations had been captured by General Mihailovich's Yugoslavs from German-Italian forces; they claimed that 39 locomotives and quantities of rolling stock had been destroyed...