Word: muldrow
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...dead were avenged. At the height of the German threat, warships, including two British battleships (Warspite, Valiant), shelled the Nazi positions. Allied air forces threw many hundreds of planes at the same positions, flew 2,000 sorties in one day. At the extreme crisis, artillerymen under Lieut. Colonel Hal Muldrow, one of the many Oklahomans, were the only forces facing German tanks and infantrymen. Muldrow stripped his gun crews, gave them rifles and machine guns. The German spearhead was stopped, enveloped, thrown back. Near the northern end of the bridgehead the British stopped a German advance, seized the town...