Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cross, the Purple Heart and the Croix de guerre with palm for "extraordinary heroism in action." (Allard volunteered to swim the Seine under heavy fire to scout out German positions - was wounded getting back - "despite great pain gave detailed accounts of the enemy disposition that contributed greatly to the success of the crossing...
Upon Patton's success or failure this week might hinge the difference between long stalemate and a possible U.S. victory. The essence of Rundstedt's gamble was in keeping his center corridor open. If it could be closed by breaking the flanks' anchors, Rundstedt's gamble would be lost, perhaps totally...
...promise of victory was bright. But the path to victory was highly uncertain. And the greatest single element of that uncertainty was the success or failure of the Anglo-U.S. invasion of western Europe, which Soviet Russia had been demanding since 1942, and which Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt now proclaimed as necessary and imminent...
...notable fact about Eisenhower's prediction is not that it was wrong, but that it was based on a complete confidence that the invasion would succeed. In retrospect, his brilliant success made it seem like much less of a gamble than it had seemed before June...
...bill of rights. The Federal Government will guarantee a soldier's loan, made by a private bank, loan company, or friend, up to $2,000, providing the RFC or Maury Maverick's Smaller War plants Corp. approves. One requirement: the project must have a reasonable chance of success. If they wish, soldiers can pool their loans, that is, 100 soldiers can get $200,000 to go into business together...