Word: terraine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparently surprised, certainly outnumbered and outgunned, the Germans backed up for a few days, fighting for time. On some days Patton gained as much as five miles, but weather and terrain were holding him back more than enemy opposition...
Worried by snipers, the Army moved warily across dangerous political terrain. The objective was legislation for a national military policy after the war. Last week the Army thought it had a sound, if tentative, plan. But powerful forces were ready to oppose...
...reopen a road to China through northern Burma, "Vinegar Joe," at 59, proved himself a crack field commander, a masterly tactician-and also a driving, red-tape-be-damned anti-diplomat. His men, Chinese and American, saw him frequently from their jungle foxholes. He jeeped across the tortuous terrain indefatigably, injected his high-octane personality into every advance...
...Japs fought fanatically for the inland town of Pastrana, and U.S. casualties there were heavy. But the Japs, after losing the Leyte Valley and its excellent airfield terrain, streaked for the west coast, began embarking for Cebu in barges and other small craft, under fire from U.S. PT boats. Meanwhile the 21st Infantry, which had landed on A-day at Leyte's southern end, overran the southern third of the island with help from guerrillas. This week Douglas MacArthur announced that two-thirds of Leyte, including 212 miles of north and east coastline, had been liberated...
...north and east were terrain and towns he knew as one of World War I's battalion commanders: the Somme, the Argonne, Sedan, Amiens, the Meuse. Those Allied objectives were reminders-if the German command needed any more -of how completely Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley had reversed their classic Schlieffen plan of enveloping France.*Now the Eisenhower-Montgomery wheeling movement, anchored at the mouth of the Seine, was developing arcs that expanded toward Belgium and Germany...