Word: onslaught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preserve their own culture, their way of life, were forced to take up arms and be prepared to fight. In those days many communities became alarmed too late. They did not understand the real menace of a fanatical and effective military power. Unprepared, they failed to withstand the onslaught. For the inhabitants of these conquered nations there were then three choices: death, or servitude, or conversion to the new religion, is it different on the continent of Europe at this very moment...
Once the enormous onslaught was well under way, the Germans apologized for its delay. They explained they had had to prepare hundreds of fighting air bases in newly occupied territory, sending in hundreds of thousands of the Labor Corps for this purpose. They had had to move up vast quantities of flying fuel and lubricants, mountains of bombs, of machine-gun and cannon ammunition, parachutes, spare parts. They had had to build barracks, hangars, shops, anti-aircraft and other gun emplacements, including emplacements on the Channel for heavy artillery from the Maginot Line. U. S. correspondents who toured the Luftwaffe...
...advisers on the Committee's next step. Last year during his mountain stay the U. S. waited, alarmed but unbelieving, for Adolf Hitler to plunge into Poland and launch the War. Last week it waited for a blow nearer home-for the full force of the Nazi onslaught to fall on the British Isles. No longer was it necessary last week for William Allen White or the Committee to argue that the U. S. had a vital interest in the way the war turned out. There had never been any doubt that the overwhelming mass of U. S. citizens...
Almost to Dunkirk. Behind this armored and mechanized onslaught came a number of German divisions in lorries, and behind them, again, plodded comparatively slowly the dull, brute mass of the ordinary German Army and German people, always ready to be led to the trampling down in other lands of liberties and comforts they never have known in their...
...coast in 1588, Prime Minister Winston Churchill not only spoke words of courage but matched them with action. In less than seven days Great Britain's tireless old firebrand changed the character ot Allied warmaking from one of defend & wait to one of dare & strike, although the German onslaught made daring & striking seem more necessity than inspiration. The Prime Minister's week: I-Tuesday he drafted England's No. 2 hustler, Lord Beaverbrook, to head a new Ministry of Aircraft Production, the Allies' greatest armament need (see below). ∧ Wednesday he completed his Government...