Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everywhere French patriot armies were rising, to fight the invader in his rear, to help Allied air fleets paralyze his movements. General Brereton's airborne army of 250,000 men was still a hovering menace that might swoop to cut any line of retreat anywhere. It could be used to speed the juncture of the Seventh Army in Provence with the forces before Paris. It might be dropped beyond Paris to slash the German escape route-or be set down in Germany beyond the Belfort Gap to speed an advance into Germany at the Swiss-border hinge...
First objective of the new strategy was Sidor. U.S. forces swarmed ashore in a surprise landing on Jan. 2, while Aussies fought down the steaming Ramu Valley, in the rear of the enemy, toward Madang. The next move, and every one thereafter, was to be a leapfrog pure and simple...
...Francisco's Gardner A. Dailey, is a fine example of the flourishing California school of modernists. A modest wooden structure, it is planned "like a wide-angle camera" to take utmost advantage of the frequently befogged Sausalito daylight, has clear glass over half its front and rear elevations...
...Americans spending time to mop up Brittany while he was scraping together reserves to seal off the Brittany peninsula. But he had underestimated U.S. speed and daring. Leaving mopping-up to wait, the Americans had already taken Le Mans and were swinging north against the Seventh Army's rear when Kluge's reinforcements began to arrive over his battered roads. Underrating the American threat, Kluge threw his reinforcements into an attempt to push his dangling flank to the sea near Avranches. This only drove his troops deeper into Eisenhower's trap...
...impeccable Navy career had come to a tragic end. Rear Admiral Don Pardee Moon, commander of a task force in the invasion of Normandy, had taken his own life. The Navy, announcing his death last week, did not say how or where, offered no explanation except "battle fatigue...