Word: steep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military convoy moving at night . . . is something that nobody who has been in one can ever forget. . . . The moon was just coming out. The sky was crystal-clear, and the night was bitter cold. . . . We had to cross over a mountain range. There were steep grades and switchback turns, and some of the trucks had to back and fill to make the sharper turns. . . . We had long waits. . . . We would shut off our motors and then the night would be deathly silent except for a subdued undertone of grinding motors far ahead...
...these steep, rocky, treacherous hills, broken by gullies and chasms, the 1st Division fought for four days and nights without rest or relief. Three times the 10th Panzers counterattacked, first with tanks followed by infantry, next with infantry followed by tanks, the third time by infantry infiltration supported by tanks. All three attacks were beaten off. On the day of the heaviest attacks the Germans sent in nearly 100 tanks, in two waves, and the first wave penetrated the 1st Division's positions. Cut off from its base, the infantry stood its ground, as only the best-trained, best...
...Friday morning B Company made a dash for the nearest slope. The doughboys crossed the wheat field and started up the steep side. Then all hell broke loose...
...emergency wharfs, with boards and beams, along the beaches." This was taken to mean that evacuation was at hand. But correspondents on the spot thought not. They could see the beginning of the end, but the end of the end was hidden on the opposite slopes of some very steep and very stubborn hills...
...strongest areas lie on the flanks. From Sedjenane to Djebel el Ang on the northeast, and from Enfidaville to Djebel Sefsouf on the southwest (see map), the mountain chains are steep, and provide a natural defense in depth. But in the center there are two areas where the fortress walls are weak. These are the broad valleys of Tunisia's two main rivers: the Medjerda and the Miliana...