Word: patching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those nine days they had fought for the bridge in the streets and houses of Arnhem-and the Germans had bashed down the houses, one by one. There had been daylong, nightlong battles for a patch of open field, where the British had pitted their parachuted Piats* and even lighter weapons against the Germans' tanks -and had made the tanks turn tail...
...Packed Patch. There had been hours upon seemingly endless hours of battling in a woods to which the airborne finally had to fall back. Here their hell was not quite a mile long, little more than half a mile wide-a packed patch of screeching shells, of fire-spouting tanks that broiled men alive, of strafing planes, of sleepless nights, foodless days. Bespectacled Major Royston Oliver, 30-year-old Airborne press officer (now in an English hospital to save his wounded hand) told about it in a diffident, British...
...seventh day broke bright and clear. A long train of C-47 transport planes and towed gliders came over Arnhem. More hundreds of paratroops, more tons of supplies fell to help the men in the "patch of hell...
That night the U.S. airbornes inflated their few boats again, crossed the Lek to relieve the men in the "patch of hell." Gradually the Allied foothold across the Lek was strengthened. But still there was no letup of the German pressure. For this was also a battle of desperation for the Germans. U.S. columns advancing eastward from the rescue corridor drove into German territory a few miles from Cleve, the anchor of the Siegfried Line. This was not merely a battle to rescue the British airborne. It was a battle to turn the whole right flank of the German army...
...bursting along the shore. The big rockets, taking off with a coughing roar, scorch the beach and plow up vegetation behind them. Many 20-mm. autoguns are hammering like runaway riveters and weaving red lines of tracer shells alongshore like thin angry fingers prying and poking into every patch that might shelter an enemy...