Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hard Axis Shell. If the Allies launch an offensive toward the Balkans they will find some tough going at the main line of defense. The Germans have not been idle. Since their fiasco in Tunisia, they have poured troops into Greece and Bulgaria and have greatly strengthened their fortifications. Allied estimates are that the Germans have 60 divisions in the Balkans, commanded by such outstanding men as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, Air Chief of the Mediterranean; General Alexander Löhr, Commander of Balkan land forces. Top commander in the area was reported to be Field Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm Walther...
...Solomon Islands. Within this 4,000-mi. arc the Japanese have concentrated more air power and troops than anywhere else in the Far Eastern war zone except in China. They may have an offensive thrust in mind: to clean the Allies out of Australia's outlying islands and launch an invasion of Australia itself. Or they may be building up a defense against Allied designs on the ladder of islands which marks the road to Japan...
Gafsa & El Guettar. On the night of March 17-18 General Terry Allen's 1st Division traveled 45 miles by truck to launch a surprise attack on Gafsa at daybreak. Purpose: to establish Gafsa as a supply base for the Eighth Army. The first shell that pitched toward Gafsa that morning opened the campaign that ended at Bizerte and Tunis. It was the 1st Division's first action as a complete division since it landed in Oran in November. So successful was it that the enemy got out of Gafsa without a fight, and three days later...
...launch the "Quint Fleet" of five freighters at Superior, Wis., the Dionne Quintuplets made their first trip to the U.S. Crowds jammed the station platforms along the way, some 15,000 turned up at the shipyard. There, during three and a half hours of oratorical and musical whoop-te-do, the five eight-year-olds sat on a lofty platform, at 45-minute intervals marched to a ship and smashed a pint of Niagara River water on a bow. Lefthanded Emilie, whose possible performance had caused a little worry, did beautifully with a masterly righthanded smack. Biggest applause...
Here was no lament that Russia was bearing the burden alone, that the Allies were slow to launch a promised second front. But here, too, was a subtler form of the old reminder and the old urgency: "Hitlerite Germany and her armies are shaken and are undergoing a crisis, but they are not yet defeated. It would be naive to suppose that the catastrophe would come of its own accord and as part of the present course of events. Two or three more such powerful blows are necessary from the west and the east...