Word: salient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of the U.S. divisions were tired; they needed rest which they were not getting. The doughty 1st and 4th Infantry Divisions, which had held the shoulders of Rundstedt's salient, were still fighting last week (the 4th had been caught in the Ardennes while resting from the struggle for the Hürtgen Forest). At this time, they simply could not be spared. Their losses and those of other outfits had been almost fully made up. One division, which had had two regiments badly chewed up, got two complete new regiments. In addition to piecemeal replacements flowing through...
...throughout, the camera in many spots has captured the flat, faded look of old daguerreotypes to give this period melodrama authentic flavor. The plot, based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter, and actually a direct steal from "Angel Street" ("Gaslight"), is, by its asked repetition, the picture's most salient fault...
Stettin's fall would mean that the Germans were failing to do what the U.S. and British troops had done in the Ardennes bulge: hold the shoulders of the salient and prevent the attacking tide from spreading beyond control. Stettin's capture would widen Zhukov's Berlin salient to safe proportions...
There were the 24th and 38th Divisions of Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger's new Eighth Army, both on the Bataan salient. The 24th, commanded by slim, handsome Major General Frederick Augustus Irving, sprang from an old square division in Hawaii. The 24th had been blooded on New Guinea and Leyte. The 38th was the "Cyclone Division" of the Indiana-Kentucky-West Virginia National Guards. Many of its officers had been businessmen; its commander was a regular, Major General Henry L. C. Jones...
Donald Nelson, now Chungking's Mr. Fixit, last week submitted the latest of many recent reports on China (TIME, Jan. 1 et seq.). Salient excerpts from the Nelson* report to President Roosevelt...