Word: onslaught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week the Red Army onslaught was in the full stride of a grand assault, gaining momentum and widening the advance. The Russians had pierced 40 miles, had spread their break to a width of 65 miles. They had taken their first prize: Kielce (pop. 58,000), a hub of roads and railways 20 miles west of the point where Konev stopped last August after he had bloodily won his Vistula bridgehead...
...Hell of Buna. In May 1942, the 32nd was dumped into Australia. Douglas MacArthur, beginning his New Guinea campaign, picked it for his onslaught on Buna...
...sore spot at Arnhem-the most dangerous point for break out into the north German plain-the enemy pulled out more tanks and men, hurled them against Hodges' lines in a new assault. The Americans had seen the reserves and the armor piling up, were braced for the onslaught. When it came this week, the battle became one of the fiercest yet fought in the west...
...result has been the most rapid conquest of territory in modern history. In the first 38 days of their onslaught, the Russians pushed their enemy out of 110,000 square miles. Every hour, on the average, they had swept over 121 square miles. In 38 days the Russians claimed to have killed and captured more than a half million German troops. From Vitebsk to Warsaw, they had traveled more than halfway to Berlin...
...after the landing, MacArthur announced from his headquarters that the initial operation had been a "reconnaissance in force" but that because of its unexpected success it was now "being developed into complete occupation." Reinforcements were rushed to Momote airfield-just in time to stop the Jap's heaviest onslaught. At week's end another communiqué indicated that Momote airfield might be in the bag. Enemy "dead & wounded are estimated at 3.000. . . . We lost 61 killed and 244 wounded." Said General MacArthur: "Our troops are preparing to resume the advance...