Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other armies, possibly sparkplugged by Rokossovsky's forces, might launch a drive to Warsaw along the north fringe of the Pripet. Meanwhile Govorov and Meretskov could help things along with a westward reach for the Baltic...
When the blow fell, the Chinese were as rusty as their scanty ammunition. In the years of stalemate no adequate defenses had been built, no preparations made to launch a guerrilla campaign in the enemy's rear, once he began his big push. Some Chinese troops-notably those of plucky little General T'ang En-po-were better than others; but none fared well...
...heterogeneous personnel of this outpost collect weather data and send it to Allied forecasters in Italy; they warn and guide Allied fighters and fighter-bombers raiding the Dalmatian coast; they operate a launch which goes out in any weather to pick up Allied flyers downed...
Consequences. In one 24-hour period last week U.S. and R.A.F. commanders teamed up to launch more than 5,000 warplanes over Europe. Three massive assaults dropped a total bomb load of almost 7,000 tons on Berlin, Frankfort, Brunswick and other industrial targets. U.S. heavy bombers attacked on six of the seven days of the week. R.A.F. heavies dropped a record load of 3,360 tons on Frankfort; two nights later they dropped 2,800 tons on Berlin, then 2,240 tons on Essen...
...Take-Off. On the first day a fleet of U.S. heavy Fortresses and Liberators, covered by 1,000 fighters, roared out from Britain to launch the big push against the aircraft centers of Leipzig, blasted the night before by 1,000 R.A.F. bombers, Oschersleben,. Gotha, Bernburg, Brunswick, Halberstadt, Tutow, and even faraway Posen in conquered Poland. That night the massive Lancasters and Halifaxes of the R.A.F. trundled out to shower down 2,240 tons of bombs in a raid on Stuttgart over 450 miles from London...