Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fields went thousands of tanks, armored cars, trucks and guns. Heavily gunned German blockhouses, pillboxes and fortified ravines were reduced by the famed, straight-shooting Russian artillery. Overhead U.S. and British-made bombers dropping three-and four-ton bombs cooperated with Soviet Stormoviks in attacks on enemy tank and troop concentrations and on German nerve centers at Orel and Bryansk. In a vain attempt to stem the tide, the Luftwaffe flew as many as 1,500 sorties in a single day, but the sky was full of Russian planes. The Germans could not win the air supremacy they needed...
Almost to a man, the top troop commanders of the Seventh were officers who had come to Chief of Staff General George Marshall's attention when he was the First Army's chief of operations in 1918. They had impressed him then; he had kept them in mind for future jobs...
Pilots in low-flying A36 fighter-bombers, Lightnings, Warhawks and Spitfires sweated in the Mediterranean heat, ranging the dusty roads for troop convoys, tanks and artillery. Soon it seemed to them that they could find only the ruins of earlier attacks. ("Targets are becoming scarcer by the hour.") But there would be "targets of opportunity" until the last Axis force had surrendered...
...carriers were not the only gamble Kaiser had on the board. A year ago he gambled that he could build his Richmond No. 3 yard in time to turn out a new type of ship (a troop carrier) by this summer...
...yeoman, had been a Boston College Track Star and still makes his Saturday nite runs into Boston. . . DAVE HORWITZ was in the First Marine Division on Guadalcanal in late '42 and spent some time on a seaplane tender in the South Pacific. . . CLIFF HARRIS was a corpsman on a troop transport that made a tour of Casablanca, Australia, New Zealand, India and the Panama Canal. . . HAROLD BANKSTON did some time in the North Atlantic and in the North Pacific and he wasn't chasing whales. . . so please, Honey, when you visit me here please don't expound too much...