Word: bloodiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page 24 you will find quotations from Sherrod's story of what he saw and heard in the bloodiest action in the 167-year history of the Marines...
Pacific. The Gilberts fell in 76 hours, the Marines on Tarawa won their bloodiest battle, and the U.S. Navy was launched on its drive through the Central Pacific. Logical next step: to the bigger, stronger Jap positions in the Marshall Islands...
...bloodiest fighting surged through Capua itself. Just before the Allied zero hour, the Germans thrust a column across the Volturno into the old town. Momentarily the Fifth staggered. Then Allied troops counterattacked. The Germans quickly turned, splashed back across the river. Northeast of Capua, General Clark's Yanks seized a clump of scrubby brown hills dominating the surrounding valley...
...front was still in the plans of the High Command, gathering weight. When it came, Churchill warned, it would be the "bloodiest portion of the war." When that time would be was the High Command's secret. Also a deep secret was its route. The shortest way is across France and the Low Countries, the same road over which the Wehrmacht poured...
...They fought for it like tigers-500 to 600 of them, forcing Italian soldiers to fight with them. They held it for the better part of a week while Allied bombers and artillery reduced its houses to a heap of rubble. The battle for Randazzo was one of the bloodiest in the entire Sicilian campaign...