Word: terraine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Terrain...
...affairs. It was Mr. Murphy who arranged with General Maxime Weygand to deliver U.S. food to the French colonies. Mr. Murphy and scores of U.S. agents saw that the food got there. In the process they made friends for the U.S. all over the colonies, got facts about the terrain and political conditions which greatly aided U.S. invasion planning...
...flying at 9,000 ft. Whether the bomber was violating any rule was a matter of conjecture: bombers like Lieut. Wilson's are not supposed to fly above 3,500 ft., but no one ever has specified whether 3,500 ft. means above sea level or above terrain. Lieut. Wilson was placed under military arrest, charged with manslaughter...
...Land: Killing or Being Killed. Land fighting on Guadalcanal is unlike any other fighting in this war. The terrain around the flat beachhead is unique. It consists of high, steep ridges covered with chest-high grass, alternating with valleys choked with jungle. The Japanese cling, animallike, to the jungle. The Marines prefer the ridges, from which their weapons, particularly artillery, can dominate the valleys. But they go down into the tangle to hunt out their prey...
When Beauregard posted his army along the creek called Bull Run on July 20, 1861, he had Napoleonic strokes in mind but not much sense of the terrain. General Joseph E. Johnston, his superior, just arrived from Richmond, had to assume Beauregard's knowledge of the country since he had none himself. Beauregard worked until 4:30 a.m. on an order for attack which Freeman calls "a gloomy instance of the manner in which . . . the ignorance of a commanding officer may be as gross as that of the men and infinitely more expensive in blood and misery...