Word: regroupment
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...Russia would not win the battle of Germany alone: the Red armies would learn anew how Germany fights from her inner defenses. The western Allies would have to regroup and refill their armies, rebuild their supplies. The process would be slow and painful. The battle of Luzon was not being stopped, the Pacific pipelines were not being reversed, for the benefit of the European struggle. The new reserves would have to come from the remaining fat of a U.S. not yet stripped for total...
...fighting on Leyte was in many ways the most remarkable of the Pacific war. The Japs made only a halfhearted attempt to defend the beaches, then fled inland in disorganized haste. Before they could regroup for a real fight, they had lost half their total force - 14,405 killed and wounded, by General Douglas Mac-Arthur's count...
...rules, the dash to Germany should have slowed up days ago, to consolidate and regroup units, let the quartermasters catch up. But this was an extraordinary operation: in the long history of wars the world had seen nothing like it before...
...Allied Commander General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander might regroup, force the Arno as he did the Rapido. There would still lie ahead the mountains and pillboxes of the Gothic Line...
...north of Lieut. General Sir Oliver Leese's Eighth Army there was still Florence, repository of Renaissance art, which the Germans had declared an open city. When they were captured, the Arno would cease to be a barrier. General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander would be ready to regroup his forces, and the ultimate thrust would get under...