Word: onslaught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When and how Montgomery's second round would develop was the General Staff's secret. It might be a sudden onslaught. It might be other short, sharp jabs. Or it might be a blow at an unexpected spot. Despite the change of wind, no one was discounting the wile of Erwin Rommel...
...knowledge that the R.A.F. was hammering at Germany's pride, as well as at her industry, was a reminder to many Britons that their own island, at any time, might suffer a revengeful onslaught from the Luftwaffe. Last week's dispatches from Moscow and London reported three new German planes in action...
Then came the onslaught: submarine packs, torpedo boats, dive-bombers, torpedo-carrying planes. Details of the action were not revealed, but hour after hour, for several days, in the air, on the surface, undersea, the melee raged...
...this arouses fear that resistance is ending. But last week reports from southeast Europe told of widened Yugoslav operations that spread even across the Croat frontier into Italy. South of Zagreb fighting was in progress for two communications centers, while in Serbia Mihailovich's forces had repulsed an onslaught by one German, one Bulgarian and two or three Italian divisions, far outnumbering the Yugoslav patriots...
...substance of last week's battle reports, from both Berlin and Moscow, was that the Red Army, not only in local sectors but on the entire front where the decisive battles were fought, lacked the planes, tanks, guns to match the German onslaught...