Word: heaviest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...center and east, Communist counterattacks were fierce and frequent, forced temporary U.N. pullbacks. But U.N. artillery did not let the Reds get very far. "Bloody Ridge," occupied last fortnight after heavy fighting, was still in U.S. hands. At new bloody ridges, Red assaults were met by the heaviest U.N. barrage in six weeks...
...western front one night last week, a U.S. battalion was hit without warning by what one officer called "the damndest mortar and artillery barrage I know of." A few hours later a screaming, bugle-blowing Chinese regiment attacked the Americans and cut them off. It was the heaviest fighting on the western front since the truce talks in July...
...fighting erupted in one sector after another, U.N. combat commanders asked their G-2s, "Is this it?" The G2s didn't know, but the portents were strong. Red motor traffic behind the front was the heaviest of the war. Allied airmen destroyed or damaged 4,364 vehicles in one week-but they could not claim to have stopped more than a fraction of the traffic...
Construction of U.S. highways is miles behind the outpouring of trucks and cars from Detroit, but in the heaviest-traveled, worst-tangled section of the nation, one bridge at least, has been crossed, and a lot of relief for traffic congestion is in sight...
Eventually, he got into combat. In June 1942, Colonel Stalin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for bravery in combat, in 1944 was mentioned in his father's Order of the Day, again for bravery. Said Pravda: "He has continually made a brilliant record in heaviest fighting." Vasily got the Order of Suvorov, 2nd Class, and command of the 16th Air Division (50 planes), based at Dallgow Field near Potsdam. Red airmen say that he just about ran the entire 16th Air Division, since its nominal head, Colonel General Leonid Rudenko, carefully deferred to Joe Stalin...