Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack started from the south, Soviet troops north of Stalingrad also launched an assault, moving in a great arc toward Serafimovich. Their purpose was to swing west and south, meet the southern columns and close a ring around the Germans (see map). From Serafimovich prongs spread out like the curving tines of a peasant's pitchfork. From the southern force, moving along the Stalingrad-Novorossiisk railway, prongs also curved off. One jabbed across the Don, severed the Stalingrad-Rostov railway, cut back east to squeeze Axis troops against Stalingrad. In Stalingrad itself the 13th Division began to bend...
Reports on a Battle. At the moment when these words of praise were being weighed in the map-plastered office of CINCPAC in Pearl Harbor, other words were being weighed even more carefully in an office 2,000 miles to the southwest...
...West Point a newsphotographer got four formidably newsworthy names into one neat package by rounding up a quartet of young cadets, posing them trim and scrubbed before a map of Africa...
When the news of the second-front attack on North and West Africa broke last night I got out TIME of Oct. 12 with its African map on page 28. Your story hit this whole show on the nose...
...Abstract Painter Hélion began to plot his escape. With the aid of a Shell Oil road map he had found, Hélion spent months studying a route to Switzerland. Suddenly he was moved to a camp at Stettin in eastern Germany. There he was made prison interpreter, got himself elected "representative" by the other prisoners. He gained the confidence of the Nazis. Meanwhile he picked up vital facts about the geography of the district. Again he began to plan escape...