Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs counterattacked strongly two days and a night, but the Chinese beat them all off. When the Japs started to pull out the Chinese crawled through thick elephant grass within a few feet of the road and cut down the retreating column by scores...
...platoon sergeant he led men across the blood-dyed Rapido River three times, and three times had to pull back before overwhelming enemy strength. In combat reports Kelly is officially credited with killing at least 40 Germans. Admiring fellow infantrymen rib him as "Commando" Kelly, or "The One-Man Army...
...railroad. Three German armies still in the Ukraine had now lost their last rail line of escape, would have to retreat along the muddy country roads of Bessarabia and the Ukraine, or from the Black Sea's battered ports. Manstein apparently had waited too long to pull...
High Test. In Italy, Army Intelligence Officer Orville L. McDonald, of Goose Creek, Tex., took a pull at a coffee canteen, got quite a jag out of the gasoline that was in it, later admitted that he had a "slight hangover...
...Anzio (except for the dire possibility of a German victory). From the first, the beachhead landing had been planned not as an independent thrust at Rome (the available force-six divisions-was not adequate for such a task) but as a bold flanking attack calculated to make the Germans pull back hastily from their positions along the so-called Gustav Line...