Word: terrain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From two directions Major General Innis Palmer ("Bull") Swift's I Corps moved on Baguio, summer capital of the Philippine Government. It was hard slugging over tortuous mountain terrain dominated by Japanese mortar and artillery fire. Progress was measured in yards. Fighting was a matter of probing the resistance with infantry patrols, then falling back until artillery could soften the hard spots-and they were very hard...
...fabulously tough team of Lieut. Colonel Creighton Abrams Jr. and Major Harold Cohen, are expert in this type of war. In operations such as this penetration toward the German heart, the armor moves like a cross-country skier, sliding swiftly down roads, diagnosing the terrain on the fly. If an obstacle appears too difficult to slide over or through, the armor skids around it in a series of sashaying loops. The armor always works with two fingers at once...
...with your sickening, gottverdammtes advantage in numbers of men and weight of arms, we may not be able to put up much resistance on the flat plains of northern Germany. But you can plainly see the bitter, skillful, grinding fight which we are putting up in Italy, where the terrain favors us. What will you do when you have driven us into our last great bastion, anchored on the high Alps from Salzburg to Lombardy? The terrain will then favor us on all sides, and we will make any attackers pay a hideous price. Think it over...
...Patrick's old 158th Regimental Combat Team, now under the command of Brigadier General Hanford MacNider, smashed a Japanese attempt to bring troops in from one of the other islands. But in northern Luzon the 33rd Division, after taking a month to gain 13 miles through difficult mountain terrain, was still seven miles from Baguio. And in Mindanao, Jap artillery and electrically-controlled land mines slowed the advance beyond Zamboanga. The road ahead was steep...
...Jima (Paramount), a nine-minute newsreel taken by Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps cameramen of the fiercest fight in Marine Corps history, is worthy, or almost worthy, to rank with such great war records as With the Marines at Tarawa (TIME, March 20, 1944). Shot chiefly on a terrain as shapeless as an ash-heap, as mortally featureless and cryptic as the flank of Captain Ahab's White Whale in their ultimate engagement, it lacks the relative coherence and clarity of most of its predecessors. It demonstrates, in fact, more clearly than any previous film, that...