Word: salients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wearing well or if he would last. Of course he would last, why shouldn't he?" Only after a sergeant to whom Moran had denied sick leave blew his brains out, and the doctor had observed the corrosive effect of nearly a year in the Ypres salient, did he begin to learn what tricks war can play with men's minds, and that every soldier has his breaking point...
Scramble for Safety. South of Trier, Patton's 26th and 94th Divisions slammed into the face of the German salient. Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army, with French units on the right, hit the south flank from Saarbrikken to Haguenau. Thus assaulted on three sides, the German First and Seventh Armies began a scramble to get across the Rhine. Allied tactical airplanes swarmed down on the crowded roads and resumed their familiar, pleasant pastime of smashing enemy transport. Some Germans clung to Siegfried Line defenses on the south flank; the longer they fought there, the more...
...dawn Mitscher's attack groups studded the sky over Shikoku, over the Inland Sea, over western Honshu and over Kyushu. The Japs were sadly confused, but they finally settled on the salient facts...
Hotel Berlin (Warner), complete with undergrounders, traitors and hot & cold running Nazis, turns Vicki Baum's old Grand Hotel formula to topical account. Its salient characters: an old-line general (Raymond Massey) trying to escape the consequences of plotting against Hitler's life; a diplomat (Henry Daniell) who is sorry he can't help him; a Goebbelsesque Gestapoman (George Coulouris) who gets thrown down an elevator shaft; an actress (Andrea King) who will help or betray anyone to keep herself safe; a handsome anti-fascist fugitive (Helmut Dantine) who gets help from her, and kills her when...
Southwest of Cologne, Rundstedt still had a salient with its tip in the Roerdam area, where presumably a few Germans still lingered. But the Roer, which had caused the Allies so much trouble, had passed into bloody history. The Rhine was ahead...