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Because Marshal von Bock could not advance speedily, the element of surprise was largely denied him. The usually ponderous Russians could see what he was trying to do, were able to take counter-measures (see black arrows on map, p. 24). They claimed that they were squeezing his northern prong into a virtual encirclement, that they were slowing the southern prong...
...western prong of the pincer was the German Army closing on Moscow (see p. 24). The eastern prong so far consisted of small Japanese generals sipping green tea, studying their detailed plans for attacking Siberia. But now that a Japanese general was premier at last (see col. 2), it seemed inevitable that Japan would attack Siberia...
...record changer has a double tone arm, shaped like a big tuning fork, whose prongs, each equipped with a needle and pickup, swing out over both sides of the record at once. Records are dropped from the stack on to a miniature turntable which leaves the grooved surface of both sides exposed. The upper side of the record is played by the upper prong. Then the record automatically begins to turn backward, and the lower prong plays the lower side. Then the record slips down a chute, and No. 2 drops into place...
...middle of a starry desert night, General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson poked a three-pronged drive into Syria. One prong from Palestine aimed up the coast at Beirut, Syria's No. i port; another from Amman in Trans-Jordan through the mountainous Druse district towards Damascus; the third from Iraq up the Euphrates Valley toward Deir-ez-Zor, one of the most important French garrisons in the country. Royal Navy units gathered off the coast and opened fire, R.A.F. bombers punched hard at airfields...
Curious Coincidence. History never repeats itself verbatim, but it sometimes plagiarizes itself. In 1918 Syria was owned by the Turks. The man who rolled it up for the British that fall was General Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, and he threw a three-pronged spear: one prong aimed at Beirut, two prongs at Damascus. In 38 days the three prongs joined in victory at Aleppo. Serving under Allenby was brilliant, 35-year-old Brigadier Archibald Percival Wavell, who went on to write his military master's life and follow in his footsteps as Commander in Chief of the British...