Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...towns and villages. They routed five German divisions; five others "suffered a heavy defeat." By last week's end, twelve days after the counterattack began, they had pressed on past Orel, to within 35 miles of Bryansk. German communications with the Orel garrison were being pinched off (see map). For the first time in Russia, where the main forces of Germany were still engaged, the Red Army had the summer initiative. A test was under way, a victory was in sight which could mean more to the Allied cause than last week's gains in Sicily and Italy...
...approached the coast most of us were thinking of flak. But Bolzoni's mind was racing back over many isolated little memories. Over Rome, Bolzoni, who had learned the map of the city by heart, thought he saw the Vatican off to the left. This conjured up a very distinct evening when he was 14 years old and his older sister came back from a trip to Italy and described Rome to the family. They were in the living room of their Bristol home. He was sitting on a footstool looking into his sister's face...
...blow is aimed in two directions-at Kursk from the area south of Orel, and from the Belgorod direction northward, also in the direction of Kursk. . . . It is sufficient to glance at the map to understand the operative plan of the German command. It envisaged the encirclement and annihilation of our troops along the arc of the Kursk salient...
Lieut Nelson T. Hoadley, who recently replaced Lieut. N. B. Sherry as one of the unit's officers, launched a course in map reading. Capt. Bernard A. Merriam, Company A commander, gave an examination in military...
...seems the more we ask about the reports that are due, the more excited we appear, so the instructors just elucidate a little here and there to keep us interested, and end up with a 15 page written assignment. And that from "a few figures on a rough map." Professor de Haas, we are surprised...