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Word: vinegar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course of that vital but perilous job, ''Vinegar Joe" had turned one of the great Allied tricks of the war. He had shown the hollowness of the carefully nurtured doctrine that Burma's mountains and jungles were impossible to Anglo-Saxon troops. In a great and winning gamble to drive the enemy from North Burma, he was beginning to win. Joe Stilwell was fighting on the "impossible" ground, taking supplies from the air, pushing doggedly toward the Jap's pivotal base at Myitkyina. Wingate's Raiders, Merrill's Marauders and Joe Stilwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Confidence on the Arakan Front | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

Ever since the Japs ran him out of Burma nearly two years ago Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell has been on the hunt for enough troops and supplies to fight his way back.* News from Burma last week indicated that "Vinegar Joe" was making at least a small start in the land of names that sound like unpronounceable grunts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Ting Hao | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

Workers on the 17-mile crisscross tracks exasperatingly dubbed SS&VV RR (Sling Something and Vinegar Valley Railroad), which serve a dump storing $4 billion worth of U.S. ordnance, were busier than they had ever been. At another similarly large British dump there was a similar bustle. The U.S. Army borrowed the British design for bridges, the British borrowed the U.S. K-ration but substituted condensed tea for coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Prelude to D-Day | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...Vinegar Valley. Serving this single great depot, carting inflowing supplies to their proper storage, is the SS & VV ("Sling Something & Vinegar Valley") Railway, 17 miles of track built by U.S. soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - EQUIPMENT: Stockpile for D-Day | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

Typical of the detailed preparations are the printing presses rumbling in a converted stable not far from the "Vinegar Valley" depot. There U.S. soldiers are turning out maps for invasion armies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - EQUIPMENT: Stockpile for D-Day | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

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