Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tactic." The German war communique of Saturday, July 27, told of successful air attacks on "port facilities at Cardiff, Aberthoaw and Hastings . . . the railroad junction at Tunbridge Wells and big oil tanks at Thames Haven." Significantly Telegrafo, the Leghorn daily owned by Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, who visited Hitler and Goring in Berlin last fortnight, observed over the weekend: ". . . To those- and they are millions-who are asking, 'When will the great hostilities against the British Isles begin?', yesterday's communique seems to reply, 'But don't you see that it has already begun...
...Finns also discovered how to deal with the armored sledges. Well placed hand grenades split the armor; machine guns did the rest. The Russians soon abandoned this tactic, went back to sending infantry across behind the shelter of the tanks...