Word: knockout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Older Wildcat fighter planes, with an effective range of 400 miles, were sound defensive ships but could not give bombers protection for attacks on major Jap bases. The Corsair's 70O-mile range changed that picture, made possible the knockout and capture of vital Munda; Fighter 124 became the first U.S. squadron to use the landing strip there...
...British and U.S.-if not the Russian-high commands now conceive of Europe as a single theater, are organizing for the knockout on that basis. This means that the controlling decisions have been made, the forces are being assembled for definite objectives, the debate over when and where to enter Western Europe has ended...
...Hans Jeschonnek, 44, since 1939 chief of staff of the German air forces; "of a serious illness"; at Reich Marshal Hermann Göring's headquarters. A World War I lieutenant at 15, one of Corporal Hitler's youngest generals, he planned the Luftwaffe's Polish knockout...
...South African prison camp, Italy's leading welterweights, Gino Verdinelli and Giovanni Manca, steamed up training for a return match. The knockout of Mussolini had given the bout a red-hot political significance: Manca, winner of the first match (TIME, May 3), had become champion of the Royalists, Verdinelli, a gladiator of the Fascists. Faced with this explosive mixture, British officers, who had turned out in numbers to see the first fight, decided something had to be done. They ordered Manca and Verdinelli to put up their jump ropes, retire their sparring partners, the match had been canceled...
...convinced more & more each day that only by a proper combination of war-making means can we achieve victory in the shortest possible time and with the greatest economy in life. . . . Your adversary may be hammered to his knees by bombing, but he will recover unless the knockout blow is delivered by the ground army...