Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trap. A German Mark-VI and four Mark-IV tanks suddenly appeared on the road. Atop a bare ridge, Sergeant Stanton Dobbins and his men got set with rifle grenades (see p. 68). When the tanks were 60 yards away Dobbins cried: "Let 'em have it." The first volley set one tank afire, knocked the treads off another. Other tanks came up, concentrated their fire on the slopes where the Americans lay. Some of the soldiers fled. Three more tanks were hit; the rest turned away...
Magnus: It may also be a trap in which England will perish...
...British troop convoy hove within sight and range. Airmen sweeping northwestern France got the impression that both ground and aerial defenses were astoundingly weak; London heard that the Germans had withdrawn 13 of their 34 divisions from western France and the Lowlands. Either the Nazis had laid a masterful trap, or the western wall had become, since Dieppe, a gigantic shell. Reported a TIME correspondent in London...
...operation, commanded by General Douglas MacArthur riding in a Flying Fortress, closed the last link in a trap around the Jap in the areas of Lae and Salamaua. The day before, Australians landing on the beach above Lae had shut off escape in that direction. Allied light naval craft guarded the sea approaches, sinking Jap barges that tried to sneak in with supplies and reinforcements...
...week's end MacArthur's troops seized the first prize of the coordinated campaign. Australian troops swam a jungle river to make a surprise assault and capture strategic Salamaua airfield. North of Lae, against the other jaw of the closing Allied trap, the enemy counterattacked weakly. Mr. Okuda's people appeared to be growing weary of the war in New Guinea...