Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...timed like an explosion, came a Moscow announcement that Maxim Litvinoff, great & good friend of collaboration, had been removed as Russian Ambassador to the U.S. and an unknown diplomat, Charge d'Affaires Andrei A. Gromyko, given his place. There was other strong evidence that Russia was retreating-or bluffing a retreat-into nationalistic lone-wolfing, perhaps even a separate peace...
...swept the Germans from Stalingrad 450 miles, nearly to the Dnieper, been set back to the Donets when his supply lines grew overextended, and now was back again, pushing toward Poltava and the Dnieper, with the smart Germans choking the roads and their single southwestward railroad in retreat...
...rearguard of the Wehrmacht fought stubbornly and well, strongly entrenched with machine guns and 88-mm. guns, sowing its path of retreat with mines and demolition charges. But the rearguard could not hold; it could only delay-in the north, the center and the east-the steady pressure of the British and Americans toward Messina...
...Germans had halted their long retreat at the rocky hilltop town of Troina. Used to driving the enemy out of one position after another, Major General Terry Allen's 1st Division sent one combat team against the town. The Germans ate it up with machine-gun fire and drove it back. Reserves were thrown in; for the first time in Sicily, the whole 1st Division was engaged at once. Every night the Americans advanced, every morning the Germans counterattacked, driving the Americans back down the slopes before Troina. On the evening of the fifth day A.P.'s Donald...
Germans Backward. On the retreat to Messina there was no rest for the Germans. The big guns of U.S. warships tore into them on the north coast road; the Royal Navy ripped the highway on the island's other side. Over Messina converged the Allied air arm, bombing and gunning, by day and night, the barges and small boats shuttling Germans from Sicily to Italy, from the whirlpool of Charybdis to the rock of Scylla...