Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North of Moscow, on the Kalinin front, the Nazis and Russians pinched at each other, trying to straighten the innumerable kinks and interlacing niches in each other's lines which resulted from local winter skirmishes and infiltrations. Before either side can launch a major drive, it must try to eliminate the other's outlying positions...
...last assignment Zinder went up into the hills of Syria to see how the natives would react if the Nazis launch their Drang nach Osten over the seas to the Bible lands. Typical tribal leader was a fat, unpredictable old chieftain of 40,000-who got his job by murdering his employer and annexing his sheep, has 18 wives and is known far and wide as "the man who calls himself...
After days of rotten weather, Britain's R.A.F. had smashed German targets with more than 1,200 planes. The R.A.F. had done more than launch the biggest raid in air history. It had started the great test of the striking force of air power. R.A.F. men and other military pilots were confident that if the raids were continued (and Britain meant to continue them), Germany could be brought to her knees by air power alone before winter. This may be a partisan judgment. But one thing is certain: unless something goes bitterly wrong, Germany will be a much-chastened...
...Japanese had to hurry, because the United Nations had finally caught on: from China's airdromes the Allies could launch the aerial thrust that would smash Japan's industries, hack to bits its traffic in the South China...
...first five months of 1942, more combat ships were added to the U.S. Fleet than in any twelve-month period since the President, with no encouragement from Congress and some protest, used NRA funds to launch his naval-production program...