Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Against the Allies massed along the Siegfried Line it threw itself into local counterblows. In one area against Lieut. General George S. Patton's Third Army it spent more than 200 tanks in such counterattacks. But, by this week, Patton's armor had found a weak spot at another point, had plunged ahead six miles...
...Against Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army, near Trier, enemy attacks pushed back one sharp wedge penetrating his "sacred soil." But by this week General Hodges had turned this local German success into futility: the Americans had thrust farther north and east at another point, stood only 18 miles from the Rhine...
...unlike checkers, the enemy pieces that have been hopped over are not thereby swept from the board. They have to be removed by force. It was the job of Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey's British Second Army to push through on the dotted line traced by the chutists, first to the airborne pioneers who dropped near Eindhoven, next to those at Nijmegen (the crossing of the Waal) and finally to those furthest ahead at Arnhem (the crossing...
...there was still fight left in the Nazis. They concentrated their strength to hold a hedgehog near Jelgava (Mitau) and thus kept open a small exit for their troops from the northeast. Even after the capture of Jelgava by tankers of Lieut. General Viktor Obukov, the Germans stood their ground, backed up against the Gulf of Riga. Until the first of this week, an escape corridor was still open, with Nazis streaming through it to fight another...
...clear to Coach Earl Blaik of Army: "The middy team will be a superduper, lollypalooza." But he added: "That doesn't mean that we won't beat the Navy." Lieut. Colonel Blaik concentrated on speed and deception, continually talked "muzzle velocity" to his backs, who will run from the "T" more often than last year. Besides newcomer Dean Sensanbaugher, brilliant Ohio State back, West Point has Doug Kenna, its wonderful unknown; if he finally struts his stuff (he broke an arm in practice in '42, cracked a knee last year), Army's backfield will go places...