Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Preparation. Nazi dive-bombers, which claimed a heavy toll of shipping in the bight of Bougie, harried the advance of British and U.S. troops. U.S. motorized units raced along the coast and joined the amphibious forces of the British First Army when it landed on the beach at Bone, 60 miles from the border. In three columns the united armies marched over the border at dawn Nov. 14 and began to make their way over the sizable mountains that divide Tunis from Algeria. Ahead of them, Allied paratroops, which left Britain only four days before, floated...
...Japs had to go to Luzon on their first jump. This was the place and the time to have beaten our enemy in the air. On those fields were more than twice as many P-40s as the A.V.G. ever had, but again we failed to take much toll of the Japanese planes. That first day or so was our chance in the air and we missed...
...relieved) "disaster soon followed and in the end we lost heavily-the Houston [cruiser], Pillsbury, Edsall and Pope [destroyers] were all lost in surface ship action at sea under circumstances about which we know little . . . yes, ships were lost, but it was not footless. They took a good toll from the enemy. . . . The submarines caused much loss and unfortunately have taken some themselves. Not much ever gets said about it for their personnel share, with the entire Navy, the description, 'the silent service.' They really overdo...
WASHINGTON--Axis raiders have blasted at least 500 United Nations merchant ships to the bottom in Atlantic waters since the sneak Jap attack on Pearl Harbor, but the toll has dropped steadily in recent weeks due to improved defenses, an unofficial United Press compilation showed tonight...
Scar-lipped Major General George C. Kenney, new Allied air commander in the Southwest Pacific area (see p. 63), said his flyers were taking a five-to-one toll of Jap planes. But he added: "If anybody thinks we haven't got a fight on our hands down here they'd better roll over and start dreaming on the other side...