Word: terraine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Could they make a long stand at the Maginot, whose turrets (which had faced the wrong way) might have been reversed and rearmed, but whose terrain, which also faced the wrong way, was unchangeable? It was doubtful...
Some are trained as messengers, taught to trust only two handlers. They will carry messages from one of these men to the other over all kinds of terrain, against all kinds of odds, avoiding anyone else, attacking anyone, Jap or American, who tries to stop them. On a test through heavy jungle one dog covered 1,600 yds. in four-and-a-half minutes. It took a Marine runner eleven minutes to cover the same ground. If necessary a dog can carry 150 rounds of ammunition in a saddle pack...
Pressures. The Americans had done more than break out of the bocage country by mere weight and superior fire power. They had fashioned a planes-plus-tanks-plus-infantry weapon to fit that hedge-rowed terrain. In the clear, they had employed their tanks in large force for the first time in France...
English Spoken. "This is an inconceivable, heartrending task," radioed TIME Correspondent Robert Martin from Guam. "By day, the marines fight ceaselessly against small groups of hardy Japs holding dug-in positions. The Japs are well armed and well supplied, and the terrain is on their side. Offsetting these are our superior artillery, our unopposed air power...
...ground under the Red troops punching into central Poland and the Baltic littoral was no longer Russian ground; the air was no longer Russian air. But it was Russian-dominated air. The Red Air Force finally commanded it, almost as decisively as the troops below its airmen dominated the terrain...