Word: omar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flesh and blood could no longer stand before Omar Bradley's slashing tank-infantry assaults, the endless, unopposed scourging by the greatest array of air power in history...
Outblitzed, Bewildered. Ike Eisenhower's push had developed faster than the Germans had reckoned. Omar Bradley's tankmen and truck-borne infantry -a new-formed Third Army-had stunned the enemy again & again with swift, piercing strokes...
...Omar Bradley got his good weather on July 25 and touched off his rocket. It swooshed through the chute, burst out of Normandy, burned a path to Avranches and the north corner of the Breton peninsula...
Westward. Omar Bradley, the infantryman's general, was using the greatest U.S. striking force in World War II. In the Normandy stalemate after the brilliant capture of Cherbourg, he had used it tentatively, so G.I.s seemed to think, among the baffling hedgerows of the bocage country. But when the breakthrough came there was nothing tentative about it: Bradley kept plowing ahead without giving the Germans a chance to recover their balance...
Eastward. But the thrust into France was the big battle for which Omar Bradley's Brittany campaign was the preparation. The world would soon see how the Allied ground commander in France, General Sir Bernard Montgomery, would fit the campaign into his strategic pattern...