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...bombers pummeled Iraq for 39 days before the tanks rolled in, and almost 100,000 dazed Iraqis rushed to surrender. Franks pressed for a 14-day bombing campaign this time, but Rumsfeld rejected it as old think. The accelerated push has subjected a nearly 300-mile supply line snaking back to Kuwait to repeated nighttime ambushes. Units have had to be siphoned off to protect it. Tanks have had to be turned on rear-guard guerrillas rather than on the Republican Guards dug in ahead...
...what puts the power into power walking? If you can cover a mile walking in about 12 to 15 minutes, you’re walking powerfully. “I usually head over to Central Square and back to Quincy in about 20 minutes,” says Subin. “That’s probably a bit over a mile...
Hitler, by some reports, spent the week before the invasion confined to the Reich Chancellery, the opulent quarter-mile edifice he had built to symbolize Germany's might. During that time, he subsisted on a spartan diet of vegetables, buttered bread and his custom-brewed 1%-alcohol beer. He slept little, usually going to bed at sunrise...
...since April. After we landed on the beach of Pointe du Hoc, which was between Omaha and Utah beaches, we were supposed to climb the 100-foot-high cliffs and take out the German cannons we believed were stationed there. The guns had a 10-to 12-mile range and were a danger to the forces landing at Utah and Omaha...
...fight through the Germans and locate the huge guns. But they weren't there. They had been moved. We had to keep searching for them. The Germans were hiding in underground tunnels. Every time you turned around, one would pop up. I found the guns about a mile away in an apple orchard and rendered them inoperable by damaging them with grenades...