Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian campaign was now a battle for the few good highways along which the Germans could retreat; crossroads were prime objectives. As the Allies took one road after another from the communications system, the escape routes narrowed and the enemy became an ever easier target for the unopposed Allied air force, flying 2,000 sorties daily. Germans were reported traveling only at night, hiding...
...shall never leave here," said Santayana, looking about the place where he has been in retreat since 1941. "There has been so much killing and so much suffering in the world's history...
Labor, especially the C.I.O. in full retreat...
...Left. The German left fell back of its own accord along the Adriatic-a necessary corollary to retreat in the west. Allied troops advanced without cost, occupied the port of Pescara, the capital of Chieti province, took over the coastal end of the lateral highway to Rome. The German left seemed to be having trouble disengaging itself for fast retreat...
...nature of the Partisan warfare makes proper medication impossible, with all the Allied help. The basic principle of the Partisan strategy is never to defend a certain area at all costs, but to retreat when the enemy pressure reaches a certain point and conquer new territories else where. This means constant movement of the improvised hospitals and the wounded; therefore, there is no permanent hospital or rest for anybody when the pokret (movement) is ordered...