Word: overruning
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Sweeping out of Barrafranca, thirteen Mark-IIIs and Mark-IVs had overrun our 3rd battalion, forcing it to evacuate its position in the plain. Temporarily unopposed by infantry, the tanks came on down the valley between the hills, shooting up at us as they came...
...beaches, aswarm with incoming men and weapons, the tanks steadily advanced. A brigadier general of artillery, watching them, said to his companions: "I won't go back into the sea." Terry Allen said: "Hell, we haven't started to fight. Our artillery hasn't been overrun...
Traditions in a Harvard at war can either be inconveniences easily overrun by the pressure and expediency of an accelerated schedule, or the touchstones which salvage from chaos and abnormality the feeling if not the fact of a peacetime education. Not least among these traditions is the Class Day and baccalaureate ceremony which alone can impart the atmosphere of conclusion to a college career. And yet, the departing Class of 1944 is faced this spring with an inane graduating ceremony in which they can have no part and which can have for them but little significance...
Hiking Party. Finally the objectives were overrun. The sweating Rangers reformed; the day's work was not over. It is never over. Toughest of all are the noncombat exercises sometimes sprung on the men when they have just finished exercises under fire. And toughest of those is the "speed march...
American troops moving up the coast from the Buna area, which was overrun by Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's men on Jan. 2, captured the village of Tarakene, a mile and a half below Sanananda, on Sunday...