Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans, the authors of blitzes, could not understand a blitz in reverse. The quick push on Tunis, though it was the obvious move, gave the enemy a shock greater than that of all our shells and bombs...
Meanwhile the 1st Armored Division had taken Maknassy, north of Gafsa, but was unable to push through the hills beyond. Reason: insufficient infantry. So about half the division was shifted to El Guettar for the new offensive. A dozen miles east of El Guettar the hills come close together in a narrow pass, and after that there is flat going to the sea. The plan was for the 1st Division to seize the hills to the north, for the 9th to take Djebel Berda and the other hills to the south, then for the ist Armored to push through...
...would never be a Bataan, any more than Tunisia had ever been a "Stalingrad or could ever be a Dunkirk. Bataan served a strategic purpose: it denied Manila Bay to the Japs for many weeks. Cap Bon can serve no strategic purpose: the Allies can push on toward Europe without...
...flyers, killed in a Jap bombing raid, lay newly buried in the damp China soil. Back in the barracks, their friends read the ugly facts in the news bulletin. Some were men from the Pennsylvania coal fields. Their first reaction was bewilderment: ("Why do they let John Lewis push them around that way?"); their second, cold fury ("I'd just as soon shoot one of those strikers as Japs...
...Seventh Air Force, who promised more attacks in this new Army theater. Said he: "Right now we are building up to a campaign . . . [of] repeated small raids or large concentrated attacks, whichever we consider most effective. . . . Our bombers are laying the groundwork for future seizure of enemy bases to push back the Japanese outposts...