Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Take It? From previously captured bases in the Bismarck Archipelago. Japanese bombers and cannonading fighters struck again & again at New Guinea's Port Moresby. Wary of anti-aircraft fire, they stayed high, did little damage. U.S. and Australian bombers knocked out 13 Jap troop and supply ships attempting a seaborne thrust at Port Moresby and its hill-ringed harbor. The R.A.A.F. and long-range U.S. bombers hammered the airdrome at Gasmata, Jap-occupied town on New Britain's southern coast, swept northeast to Rabaul to catch grounded Jap bombers with at least one direct hit. Jap bombers left...
...blue waters of the Aegean Sea, the purple minarets of Turkey and the terraced olive groves of Syria to lure him on. But some tiresome Nazi underling no doubt would urge the Führer to inspect fleets of dull grey invasion barges, squadrons of bombers, fighters and troop carriers hidden away in the islands off Greece. On some later day Canoeist Hitler might travel on to new lands blessed by his new order...
...China Front is still a future front for the U.S. Army and Air Forces. Fearsome problems of supply, aircraft and possibly troop transport remain to be solved before China's potentialities for an Allied offensive can be fully realized, by Joseph Stilwell or anybody else...
...Must Wait!" The U.S. lacked ships. It lacked aircraft carriers. It lacked essential weapons for troop movements on a real expeditionary scale. It lacked many things which the U.S. would have three months, six months, a year from now. One school of thought pondered these lacks, pondered as well the heavy responsibility of committing men, planes, warships to battles in which losses would be great and chances uncertain. It took no basic lack of the offensive spirit for these burdened men to say (as many in high places did say last week): "We must wait...
...Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya quit the tenth grade of Moscow's 202nd Secondary School and joined a guerrilla band. Hair-cropped, in men's clothes, tall, 18-year-old Zoya proved an apt recruit: before the Germans captured her, she had cut a German field-telephone wire, fired German troop quarters, destroyed a 20-horse enemy stable...