Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Events soon outpaced the 90 Navy bombers, the 173 Army attack planes which were assembled for dispatch to Canada and thence to Europe. Mr. Roosevelt had had to go through the devious farce of "trading in" the planes. 600,000 World War I rifles, 68.000 old machine guns, 875 French and British 755, other munitions to private manufacturers, who in turn sold them to the Allies...
...Gorizia and won Colonel Badoglio his generalship. His Second Army was the one which cracked worst at Caporetto but this is excused by his admirers on the ground that he took over the command from a sick predecessor on a few days' notice, that the Austrian surprise attack centred on him. He helped General Armado Diaz and the Allied rescue staff (including France's Weygand) reorganize the Army on the Piave, and planned the final push at Vittorio Veneto in October 1918 which knocked Austria out of World War I. He has been Chief of Staff intermittently ever...
...land, sea and air the Italian forces are geared rather for hit-&-run tactics than for direct attack. Their aircraft, many of them of wooden construction, hold records for speed and altitude. Their cruisers and destroyers are supposed to go in heavily for smoke screens and seldom venture beyond the range of supporting torpedo planes from land bases. Lightly armored, many of the cruisers sacrifice radius of action for speed as high as 40 knots for the light types. These are for fighting in the Mediterranean, along with swarms of 50-knot motor torpedo boats and small submarines. Other cruisers...
...knew the need for speed. "Our Army," he wrote several years ago, "is strong in numbers but it has the character of defensive armies, slowness and rigidity. I may add"-and this proved tragically true last week-"that it has not the technical means for rapid and decisive counter-attack." He urgently demanded "an Army of shock troops with lightning-like speed and formidable power in artillery . . . modern tanks which will go 40 kilometres an hour in flat country." But those defenders of the realm, Blum, Daladier, Gamelin, would not listen...
...buttle, John Barrymore once said: "You played that as if you came from a long line of butlers." Died. Francis Luis Mora, 65, Uru guayan-born U. S. artist, member of the National Academy, whose portrait of War ren G. Harding hangs in the White House ; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1933 he painted himself and wife as he imagined they would look in 1953, predicted an American Renaissance in that year...