Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invasion of Europe was coming-and soon. But when? When? Over Europe uncertainty hung sharp as a dangling sword...
...Screams tear the night and the wrecker crew claws into the wreckage with bare hands to get at the injured. A British surgeon is already inside doing something under a flashlight, something quite frightful with his kukris [Gurkha sword] after his morphine has stilled the screaming...
Said Charles J. Rolo in Wingate's Raiders: "The sword, the Bible and 'the flair for strange races' are all a part of Wingate's heritage." This strange character was born in the Himalayas-not far from where he died-son of a puritanical Indian Army general. Schooled at Charterhouse and Woolwich Military Academy, too late for World War I, he set out to join his unit in the Sudan by cycling across Europe and the Alps...
...shield's black background is the "darkness of Nazi oppression." A Crusader's sword across the shield has "red flames of avenging justice leaping from its hilt." Above the sword a rainbow, made up of all the colors of the United Nations, stands for hope. Over the rainbow a field of blue represents "peace and tranquillity for the enslaved people of Europe...
Double Blade. The Allied air weapon was cutting as a two-edged sword. Air officers welcomed the chance either to dismantle Germany's war industry at trifling cost, or, better still, to whittle down the tiring Luftwaffe squadrons in the process...