Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wiry, honor-hungry General Shunroku Hata had used this and other assets, like superior firepower, with seeming skill and a full appreciation of the weakness of his foe. He split his forces into small columns (the two which crossed the Yellow River numbered only 5,000 men), sent them streaking across Honan's ripening wheat fields. Once his wedges had pierced the outer defense belts, he sent them into mushroom patterns. Result: encirclement of Chinese front-line troops. The advance went...
...attacks struck too deeply at sensitive targets. Where they had once been able to put 600 fighters into the air to meet any heavy attack, their limit now appeared to be around 400. But the flyers who went up were the Luftwaffe's best; they fought with a skill and bitterness that earned them sober professional praise from their foes...
Japan's first blow in mid-April fell on tough, little Tang En-po, one of Chung king's ablest generals. But Tang's tactical skill could not make up for the inadequate weapons of his men, for the lack of air cover, for the incredibly meager trans port facilities...
...officers that their task would be easy. He did tell them that their country was giving them the best of weapons, planning, air and naval support. But he told them that life and victory would lie in their own hands. They must be fit, know their weapons, use their skill and wits. They must have confidence in themselves; then their men would have confidence in them...
...Desert Victory (TIME, April 12, 1943). Tunisian Victory is worth seeing if only for a few minutes aboard the two lordliest convoys in history (they carried the British and Americans to Africa). There are some eye-shattering shots of combat, too. The film was made with care and skill, but the intricate military story is told too doggedly, with too much commentary. A general high-surface of tact and politeness reduces the film's forces as a record of truth. Most unfortunate touch is the finale between the off-screen voices of a British and a U.S. soldier philosophizing...