Word: smokebomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather was too bad. The infantry had to attack the hard way. Two weeks ago doughboys crossed the moat and scaled the sides of the fort, then were driven back by the Germans. Last week they tried again. Infantrymen fought their way into the fort through phosphorus and smokebomb clouds, tried to burn out its occupants with blazing oil. The Americans, clinging to the top, could hear the Germans scurry through the tunnels below, but they noted no sag in the defense, which went on from lower levels...
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