Word: maneuverers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Candles Spiked. The corporal's opinion was shared by 5,000-odd army and air force personnel and 22 newspaper correspondents taking part in the Sweetbriar maneuver. In Arctic warfare, everything was different and difficult. Even breathing required a careful technique; a deep breath of the icy air could...
The maneuver was centered around the Alaska Highway, the one road in the Northwest by which an aggressor force or a defending Allied army could travel. At night, troops had to leave the road to bivouac in the bush in their nylon tents and down-filled sleeping bags. But most...
Although the men could take it, some of the machines could not. The'so-called all-weather fighter planes - U.S. F-80s and Canadian Vampires-functioned well enough mechanically but were frequently grounded by Arctic snow flurries and overcast. The U.S. Army's snow vehicle, the Weasel, was...
Little Finland has been a burr in a bear's paw. The bear has alternately gone after it with tooth & claw, licked it with honeyed tongue. Before last year's elections, Russia offered the Finns a friendship pact, reduced their reparations debt. The maneuver failed. The Finns trotted...