Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold R. L. G. Alexander, commander of land forces in Tunisia, denned the order carefully. "The main task I gave to the Second U.S. Corps," he said, "was 1) to capture and secure Gafsa as an administrative base for the Eighth Army; 2) to threaten Rommel's rear from Gafsa and Maknassy so as to draw off reserves from the Eighth Army." Both these jobs had been "most successfully done...
Doolittle for Long Ranges. The Strategic Air Force sends its bombers against enemy supply lines and rear bases. Said General Spaatz: "This group of flyers struck perhaps the hardest blows in daylight ever delivered by an air force." The commander of this group, U.S. Major General James H. Doolittle, had to be reminded last week that April 18 was the anniversary of his raid on Tokyo. He looked in his logbook, found an entry describing "a 13-hour flight - one landing," and said: "So it was." On a typical day last week his Fortresses found 112 Axis transport planes...
Late in the day the Germans fiercely counterattacked the two hills. Later still, at dusk, they sent over the remnants of the Luftwaffe. Then the rear guard fled...
...These boys had been storming these hills for three weeks, trying to get over to the coast and get in Rommel's rear, but the Germans had refused to budge until this morning when they fled before Montgomery's powerful advance. 'We tried to knock 'em off Old Baldy,' said Sergeant Vernon Mugerditchian of Waukegan, Ill., jerking his head at a rounded bare steep cliff. 'We tried first with one battalion and then another, but we just couldn't. They were lookin' down our throats...
...hardships, equally incredible battles. Volunteers had almost no discipline. Early in the war, "the depots and bases filled with whores, sutlers, and gamblers, were already a continuous jamboree and vicious with crime." One Maryland regiment "suffered attrition from delirium tremens." A Kentucky regiment had to be "ordered to the rear in disgrace, for rape...