Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carried out with "magnificent precision." Reasoned Major Eliot: Last August when Russia was fighting off Germany's renewed attacks and it seemed certain that Japan would seize the chance to invade Russia's Far Eastern provinces, the U.S. went into the Solomons. Japan "fell into the trap" and diverted the troops she needed for a Siberian adventure...
...Eisenhower, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham and Major General James Doolittle conferred with Sir Arthur William Tedder, R.A.F. chief in the Middle East,* and Major General Lewis Brereton, chief of U.S. Middle East air forces. Tedder and Brereton had flown in from Egypt. The moment Tunis was cleared, the trap would probably be sprung on Rommel...
Meanwhile, a board of inquiry, headed by Fire Commissioner William A. Reilly strove to establish whether the holocaust involved criminal negligence, and if so, who were responsible for the fire trap...
When the reinforced Australians began their counteroffensive, the Japs raced back along the slimy jungle trails. But the Australians refused to fall into the trap. The Diggers advanced cautiously, setting up supply dumps as they moved forward, establishing elaborate latrine systems to combat the scourge of dysentery...
...inspected at any time. In several Mare Island cases bullet and shrapnel wounds were discovered in burned areas which would have been overlooked had they been bandaged. ^ Wax treatment does not produce the leathery crust which forms on burns treated with tannic acid and dyes. These crusts often trap purulent materials and have to be removed painfully...