Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they made it "without fuss or bother, with a calmness that comes from lots of experience. The show started at 4 p.m.-dusk here - with a 400-gun barrage which lasted 15 minutes. They fired high-explosive shells for the first twelve minutes, and then finished off with smoke, to blind the enemy. Under cover of the smoke, the troops made their assault...
Past us, on the roads and in the fields, rumbled Shermans (to deal with Jerry tanks), Crocodiles (British flame-throwing tanks) and Bren-gun carriers carrying canvas assault boats. It had been bitterly cold all day and drizzling. Now the combination of smoke and rain reduced visibility to almost nothing, so that a tank 80 yards away was invisible...
Although it was nearly dark, we could see quite well, for the smoke had cleared, and the rain ceased and the British were using artificial moonlight: the reflection from searchlight beams directed onto the low-lying clouds immediately above us. The lighting effects were eerie, in the dusk of that winter evening-especially when unexpected bursts from the flamethrowers half-blinded you, and two houses and a dozen haystacks caught fire a hundred yards away...
Before they stopped, China's woes had multiplied. The enemy had taken the base at Tushan, but before he did, more of China's precious supplies went up in smoke and flame. Ahead of the Jap spearhead, U.S. engineers set the torch to the base's munitions dumps. Thousands upon thousands of rounds of ammunition and fighting equipment of all kinds, stored up with infinite pain from the trickle of supply across the Hump from India, were blasted to destruction in a 48-hour holocaust...
...usual comment on the Stettinius appointment was that "Franklin Roosevelt will continue to be Secretary of State." Even so, the old State Department would never seem the same, for which citizens could be thankful. Ed Stettinius had begun with a bang (see above). When the smoke cleared, the U.S. would see new faces in high places. And in its new Secretary, the State Department had a man who had a powerful resolution to do well. Ed Stettinius is not only friendly, energetic and loyal, but he has still another valuable trait, which was rooted in the days when...