Word: terrain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief, Lieut. General Hugo Viktor Osterman, personally took the field on the Soviet frontier of Finland, a frontier of such numberless lakes, forests and marshes that if Russia should choose to strike with mechanized forces these would have to roll directly up from Leningrad into the narrow, flat Finnish terrain between the Gulf and Lake Laatokka, Europe's largest lake. On this strategic gateway Finland has massed her only heavy fortifications, concrete pillbox forts and tank traps which Finnish soldiers last week worked furiously to strengthen...
...customary ten man team will probably be changed only for B. U. in accordance with their unexpected request to limit the harriers to seven for this meet. Jaakko likes to put everybody in the field when the terrain is travelled out here, but right now he is having difficulty convincing B. U. that they ought to put their second string harriers against the Crimson Freshman, in the absence of a B. U. '43 pack...
...system needed to feed and munition the 1,000,000-odd men the Germans will have within and behind the Siegfried Position. This is the bombers' job. That done, infantry could then be given a chance to do what skillful infantry has done since time immemorial: take up terrain favorable to it and unfavorable to the enemy-on ridges, slopes, behind spurs-and when the counter-attackers uncoil their spring, let them have it. A bath of dragon's blood made the hero Siegfried invulnerable except for one spot on his back where a leaf stuck, and that...
...Westwall proper and the international boundary, were not only forests of trees, but forests of pill boxes and blockhouses (called "Bunkers" by the Germans), bristling with machine guns and connected by deep trenches with the main fortifications behind. The machine guns were so placed that every foot of passable terrain was swept by two or more death-spitting muzzles. First task of the French was to feel out these defenses by aerial photography and by scouting parties on foot and horseback, debouching from the Maginot Line...
...Like the pamphleteering flights, British and French observation planes ranged over Germany, while German reconnaissance crews looked over French terrain to get information for Nazi intelligence maps. No losses were reported and the lie was given to German boasts that no hostile airplane could cross Nazi anti-aircraft defenses...