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Bluff Ben Lear took a characteristically vigorous course. At the jump-off he bridged the Red River, skillfully moved his 125,000 men across, charged deep into the heart of the Blues. Spearhead of his thrust was the Armored Force. It bit deep into the Blue middle, then dropped out of sight, let the Blues worry about where it would appear next...
...Fronts. Hitler's battle for Moscow had its focus at Smolensk. He had broken through the Stalin Line at the gap near Smolensk-the open space between the defending Dnieper and Dvina Rivers, north of Orsha (see map, p. 16). Through the gap the usual spearhead poured and for the first time Moscow itself was a Luftwaffe target. In a five and a half hour night attack, 200 planes planted big explosions near the Kremlin, said Berlin. But the Russians declared that only "isolated" raiders got through, called the attempt a "failure...
...athwart the Axis lines leading to Egypt. All week long Axis dive-bombers flying the easy 250-mile haul from Crete pounded the British defenses. The Italian press, with the jubilance of anticipated revenge, loudly guessed that the all-out Axis attack on Tobruch would come soon. The spearhead of the Axis forces, which fortnight ago squeezed its way through Halfaya ("Hellfire") Pass, the only convenient gateway from Libya to Egypt, would not be able to press on through the gate until the Tobruch threat was eliminated...
...these young officers have developed to its highest point is the skillful use of great superiority in numbers to compensate for shortages of equipment. The keen-weaponed spearheads of Japanese attacks are allowed to drive into the Chinese mass. Then the mass of Chinese gradually not only envelops the spearhead, but harrasses its support and its supply lines. This sort of tactic might have bothered the Germans in France if the Germans had had to cope with so immense a battlefield, with such campaign-wise veterans as the Chinese, and with an enemy outnumbering them three or four...
Trinidad is the southern spearhead, where defense is most urgent because it lies athwart the most practicable route for an enemy move from Dakar in western Africa, thence to some landing point on the eastern hump of South America, and northward to the Canal Zone, Central America, the U.S. itself. Geographically, Trinidad is also in a position to protect-or to dominate-the whole uncertain reach of northern South America. So far it is not a protection but only a position...