Word: terraine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photographs from TIME & LIFE'S tremendous picture files. He says this lets him study his character at leisure from so many different angles and lightings that he can often catch features an artist painting from life would almost surely miss. Next he builds up a sort of terrain map of the facial mounds and crevices -and before he starts his portrait in color he makes several black-and-white working drawings that look almost like architect's plans (see cut, lower center...
...than in the Tunisian campaign, had reached a new peak of efficiency in their cooperation. The U.S. forces in particular showed, at Troina, at Randazzo and in their amphibious flanking movements on the northern coast, that they could take the best the Germans had to offer in the worst terrain they had yet seen, terrain in which their advantage in numbers hardly counted because large forces could not be brought into action...
Yanks Forward. In the final push, U.S. troops drove forward in the north, Canadians in the center, Britons in the south. The Yanks found the terrain worse than Tunisia. The parched, brown land tossed in rocky ridges like the arrested waves of a stormy sea. The roads twisted through the valleys and German guns covered them from the slopes. The Yanks' job was to blast those slopes and scale them...
...inch rifles of a British monitor supplemented Army field artillery in the invasion's early hours. Naval bombardment of shore targets is not new; but at Sicily ships knocked out tanks and guns they could not see and supported infantry hidden by two and three miles of terrain. The British monitor shelled targets ten miles inland...
...Woodlark and Trobriand Islands had been a mere drawing together of the new offensive line. The landings of troops below Salamaua had put greater pressure on that Jap stronghold, but the numbers of men involved were small, the action bitter and slow because of the difficulties of terrain, the prize of less strategic importance than New Georgia. Could the U.S. hold the initiative in the Solomons, or would the Jap be able to reinforce and doggedly hold his own, as he had for so many months on Guadalcanal? As the week ended, the force and diversity of U.S. attacks...