Word: terraine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed assaults on Tinian and Iwo Jima. Military experts have since described the Tinian assault as "the perfect amphibious operation." To get ready for it, Cates personally did aerial reconnaissance over the island. Once ashore, he visited the front lines almost daily to study terrain and boost morale, often alarming his staff by the risks he took. His credo: "If the men know who their commander is, it makes a lot of difference...
...Communism, last week used military words such as "counteroffensive" and "mobilization." To the Communist Central Committee convened in Rome he declaimed: "We have not yet achieved our main objective-conquest of a progressive democracy. ... It is hence necessary to develop a decisive democratic battle, not only on the parliamentary terrain, but in all fields of the national life. ... It is necessary to liquidate this Government of reaction...
Henry Agard Wallace former vice-president of the United States, will lead what he terms his "progressive counterattack" onto Cambridge terrain October 1 when he addresses a Harvard audience under the auspices of the--local chapter of the American Veterans Committee...
...hand. They found their home windowless because of a near miss by an Allied bomb, plaster crumbling, plumbing insufficient. With Levin H. Campbell, III '48 and Kingsley Ervin, Jr. '45 and Jean Andrey from ISS as aides to the original trio, the staff set out to conquer the terrain...
...putting the Indian horde to rout alone and unaided. Custer's attack, Dr. Hawley implies, was one of the worst-botched jobs in the annals of Indian warfare. The General split his small force (600 men of the 7th Cavalry) into three parts, failed to reconnoiter the terrain, advanced to attack in broad daylight, was surprised and cut to pieces on a battlefield of narrow gullies where his cavalry was helpless. Many of Custer's annihilated group of 225 men never fired a shot...