Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arthur Tedder, as Commander in Chief of Allied Mediterranean Air Command, and Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, as Commander of the Northwest African Air Force. Their main striking weapons were Major General James H. Doolittle's Strategic Air Force (heavy bombers over main objectives in the enemy rear) and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham's Tactical Air Force (close support of the embattled ground forces). Together they formed an almost perfect team, welded and tempered in the African victory...
...initial attack reflects the plight of the Wehrmacht. In 1941 its objective, along a 1,500-mile front, was to destroy the Red Army and seize the U.S.S.R. In 1942 the objective, along an 800-mile front, was to seize southern Russia and isolate Moscow from the rear and the south. In 1943 the Wehrmacht attacked on a 200-mile front, aiming at a town and at a portion of the Red Army...
...tactics of last year: front-line bombing and heavy artillery preparation, followed by tank assaults and infantry. In defense, the Red Army also used familiar tactics, often letting the tanks through, then surrounding them and their suporting infantry. As at Stalingrad, the Russians had studded their front lines and rear with anti-tank strong points, ringed with mines, which caught the Nazi tanks in cross fire...
...Once they had little else to fight with but machine guns, rifles and knives; now they had ample artillery and support from sea and air. Once they massed and deployed awkwardly in textbook tactics; now they crept silently through the jungle. At Viru Harbor, U.S. Marines, infiltrating from the rear, wiped out Jap outposts and drove the defenders into the sea. The Jap supply line to Munda was cut by a roadblock which the Japs were unable to bypass. The Americans were using Japanese tactics to drive the Japs out of the Solomons...
...turbine is a seagoing adaptation of the one used in U.S. electric-power plants. But its use on a ship was something of a gamble, because it meant a drastic redesigning of traditional ship's machinery. Nonetheless, two enterprising Navy engineers, Rear Admiral Samuel Murray Robinson (then engineering chief, now head of the Navy's Office of Procurement and Material) and Rear Admiral Harold Gardiner Bowen, braved a fierce controversy and pushed it through. Ship Architects Gibbs & Cox (TIME, Sept. 28) were commissioned to design the new machinery...