Word: terrain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zhukov's speed had never been matched by the Germans in their blitziest days. Off the roads, his route was over swamps and through forests. It was a terrain for Cossack cavalry to flush out enemy resistance left by the tanks. The Cossacks, in the style of their forebears, staged awesome attacks. One detachment caught almost an entire company of Germans, galloped among them with sabers slashing...
Nowhere, outside of China, did the Japanese have the initiative; but everywhere they were mustering for bitter-end resistance on the best available terrain...
With no obstacles except the terrain (part sandy, part marshy), Krueger's men quickly pushed inland, consolidated their separate beachheads, put Lingayen airfield into service, and started south on good highways toward Manila. For days, the Japs faded away ahead of them. On the western flank, the Agno River was early crossed. In the center, where the river's great bend made a logical position for a determined Japanese stand, it was crossed again at week's end, still against only token opposition. On the east, there was stiff local resistance, but if the Jap had been...
...than expected, and it had taken more U.S. casualties. But it had paid greater dividends than U.S. war planners had counted on. After getting over their first surprise, the Japanese had kept on pushing reinforcements from other Philippine islands into Leyte, where they had no time to learn the terrain or to assemble a full quota of heavy weapons...
...push the line into big-league operations by extending its routes west from Bismarck, N.D. to Seattle and Portland. Traffic was light. In some years, mail subsidies were 60% of Northwest's revenues. But Hunter made a reputation of flying his planes through bad weather-and over mountainous terrain-on schedule. Northwest also flew without a fatal passenger accident until construction bugs in their new Lockheed 14s spoiled this record with a crash in January 1938. Northwest's earnings cracked up too. They went into the red for two years...