Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anglo-U.S. heavy bomber forces searched the remnants of the Reich for targets last week, and found moderately good hunting: rail yards, airfields, oil and ordnance depots, an explosives plant, shipyards and shipping, U-boat pens. One day when U.S. Eighth Air Force bombers and fighters attacked airfields in the Berlin area, the Luftwaffe reacted violently, sending up the biggest swarms of jet planes the Americans had ever seen. All over the blue sky, twisting white vapor trails mingled with the black streaks of burning, falling planes...
Vienna, main rail hub of southeastern Europe, was the gateway between the food bins and arsenals of Czechoslovakia and the 35 divisions in Italy and Yugoslavia. Even before Moscow's 324-gun salute boomed the Vienna victory, the Russians were off toward more decisive prizes. This week Red columns stood only 30 miles from Brünn, one of the shrinking Reich's last armaments centers. Other columns had turned westward along the Danube and toward Linz. There the Russians would be in position to seal off the eastern side of the Nazis' Alpine redoubt...
...Ruhr industries were lost to Germany; but the war was much too far along for the Allies to sit back and wait for the loss to take effect. So long as Germans held the Ruhr, they 1) blocked several east-west trunk rail lines and highways, thus complicating the Allied supply problem; 2) kept the Allies away from the Ruhr's coal; 3) held a base for possible guerrilla war in the Allied rear; and 4) tied down at least five infantry and one armored division, identified in dispatches, and probably several others as well...
...Ninth Army's 83rd Division fought into Hamm, which has the biggest rail marshalling yards in Germany, and three days later cleared the city. Elsewhere even the fighting for villages was tough. The Germans launched small but savage counterattacks with tanks, fought off the U.S. attacks with dug-in tanks and self-propelled guns. In the Siegen area, on the south side of the pocket, they put in ten counterattacks...
Tolbukhin's tanks surged across the plains of western Hungary, captured the rail center of Szombathely, then outflanked the Nazi positions southeast of the shallow lake called the Sea of Vienna to plunge into the Austrian province of Burgenland. On both sides of the Danube and northward in Slovakia, Malinovsky's troops fought toward the Bratislava Gap and Vienna...