Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Submarines still wallowed all along the Atlantic Coast. Lurching along under the whitecaps, they spread death & destruction from Maine to the West Indies. Each week they accounted for some half-dozen ships. There was no blinking their efficiency, or the fact that the death toll among U.S. mariners was running abnormally high...
...until the Japs finally entered this week, the remnants of that golden city. British and Indian troops fought, fell back, fought again. British crews arrived with a few U.S. tanks-too few. U.S. pilots in China's American Volunteer Group had to abandon Rangoon, after taking a heavy toll of Japanese planes with the few bullet-battered fighters left to them. Correspondent Leland Stowe watched a bombed village burn, and wrote "When you looked again at the sagging skeletons of these wooden structures, somehow you thought immediately of Japan-Japanese buildings are made of the same tinderlike material...
Wishful as this sounded, it might be true unless Russia could destroy the centers before the ground hardened after the melting of the snow. And so Russia turned on its own heat. Guerrillas drove deep into the loosely knit German lines, sold their lives stubbornly and took their toll...
...weekend dispatch from Leningrad translated partisan successes during six months of hard war into hard facts: 10,480 Germans (including two generals) killed, 64 trains wrecked, five railway bridges dynamited, 71 planes destroyed, a "heavy toll" taken of German tanks and automobiles...
...Injury has finally taken his toll of the Crimson forces. Johnny Paine, first line wing, has ben out for a week with a leg infection, but he is expected back in action tonight. His center, Gordy McGrath, suffered a charley horse against R. U., but he, too, apparently is ready...