Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head of the Committee, General Charles de Gaulle answered for its actions. "Some day," he said, "a Yellow Book-a sad book indeed-will be published about the talks that took place between our Committee and the Allied Governments. You will see then that we did all we could. . . . We must recognize that [the Allies] have done much to help. . . . If their help has not equaled the high level reached by the men in the resistance movement, I prefer not to talk about...
...tanks, mobile guns, trucks rolled forward again, across the flatlands and icebound marshes. With blank eyes the men watched the burning enemy tanks, the sidings lined with freight cars from France, Poland, Belgium, Holland, the black-and-yellow posts marked Deutschland, planted on Russian soil by the confident Wehrmacht. With blank eyes they saw Nazi posters on charred village walls: an SS soldier hugging a husky Ukrainian woman, with happy children and goats playing in the background. They had seen such women swing from German gallows, had seen the bullet-holed bodies of such children...
Marshal Pietro Badoglio's diplomatic staff, who left Rome in a hurry without their grey-striped trousers, finally got in touch with a tailor. He cut them new pairs from the only cloth he could get: brown-spotted yellow tweed...
...Yellow Fire. A flight of 32 Messerschmitts and Focke-Wulfs tackled a leading squadron of Thunderbolts. Other German fighters bored straight through at the bombers. First, four Focke-Wulfs; then 30; then twelve; then they poured in, slamming through the tight gun-studded bomber formations without even rolling over...
...twin-engined Me-110s circle from the rear, fly up in line three-quarters of a mile away; then, like torpedo boats, execute a superb 90-degree turn and lob their rockets simultaneously-"a broadside of rockets that seemed to burst in an unending line of red and yellow fire." Some bombers were under continuous attack for as much as 90 minutes; 24 hours later the men were still tense and grim-eyed, haunted by the strain of battle...