Word: mili
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshal in command of the German Armies in Italy) with a sheaf of amazing blueprints and photographs. They comprised a design for the long-distance mili tary rocket he had predicted. U.S. Army ordnance officers had brushed aside robot-bomb designs by such established invent ors as Hammond, Charles F. Kettering, the late Lawrence B. Sperry. But Kessel ring and Hermann Göring gave Oberth a big staff of technicians and the run of German laboratories...
...This week the Navy department announced that Admiral Nimitz' Central Pacific forces had "established U.S. sovereignty" on ten more atolls strewn throughout the Marshall Islands. This gave the U.S. 14 Marshall atolls, including Kwajalein and Eniwetok, left the puzzled Japs only four: Jaluit, Mili, Wotje and Maloelap-the strongly-defended spots the Japs expected to be invaded in the first place...
...this in mid-spring when the Ukraine is knee-deep in mud was a mili tary masterpiece. Marshal Malinovsky, commanding the part of the front directly adjoining the Black Sea, had probably done as well as could be expected, since his way lay across the broad estuaries of the big rivers. Marshal Zhukov, at the northern end of the Ukrainian front, had done very well by breaking through with heavy concentrations of guns and tanks into Bucovina. But Konev, in the center, had pushed farthest. He had already crossed the Bug and the Dniester. This week his army held...
This week Mili Atoll in the southeastern Marshalls, less than 100 miles southeast of U.S. positions on Majuro, was plastered by carrier-based bombers, shelled by battleships. It was the first time the battleships had unlimbered their guns since Eniwetok last month...
...Target. Navy tacticians, who may have revised their first plans after the Gilberts attack, did not choose to invade the strong bases nearest Pearl Harbor (Wotje, Maloelap), nor those nearest the Gilberts (Jaluit, Mili) on the south. Instead they slapped around the enemy's end and pounced into his backfield, all the way to Kwajalein, largest atoll of them all (and reportedly the chief supply station for the Marshalls group...