Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army launched its offensives against Kiev and Melitopol in September, the Wehrmacht rushed precious reserves of men and tanks to these points over strained and inadequate railroads and highways. The Russians saw their opportunity, struck between the two cities at the soft top of the Dnieper bulge (see map), won a small bridgehead below Kremenchug...
...map of Italy hung on the wall behind him. Sir Harold wore a freshly washed khaki bush jacket, dark grey riding breeches, brown boots. The purple-red decoration of the American Legion of Merit was pinned above his breast pocket. Crisply he asked for questions, crisply he answered...
...What had been Allied expectations? The General stepped up to the map with a wooden pointer. The plan was a bold one. It called for the Fifth Army to cut across Italy from Salerno and thereby cut off the Germans facing the Eighth Army in the south. The German, a very good soldier who takes a little time to make up his mind but then acts quickly, whipped two divisions from the Eighth's front and threw them in, with two other divisions, at Salerno. For a time the situation was very dangerous. The Allies turned on the whole...
...heart and fifteen 6-in. guns for her voice. Only her boxy stern, where she could carry eight planes, and the squat derrick cocked on her fantail, marred her clean lines. She was water-borne in the murky tide off Brooklyn in August 1938, while Japanese "fishermen" could still map soundings off U.S. coasts. She died in the early dark of July 7, 1943, deep in the Kula Gulf between New Georgia and Kolombangara in the South Pacific. Her pallbearers: the eleven Jap cruisers and destroyers which had gone down under her guns in her short career of headlong action...
Prussian military science made one-front war an axiom. Otto von Bismarck never deviated from the axiom and thereby gained an empire. Wilhelm II disregarded it and thereby lost the empire. Adolf Hitler based his strategy on it. Now, fretting over the map of beleaguered Europe, the Führer could see how completely his plans for one-front war had been thwarted...