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...swinging south to encircle the Russians at the Black Sea ports. Frontally the German gains eastward were out of all linear proportion to the great flanking sweeps which made the gains possible. A great break-through near Uman, 120 miles south of Kiev, paved the way for the final dash south to the Black Sea. By week's end the Germans claimed to have rolled across the Krivoi Rog iron-ore area, which had supplied 59% of Russia's raw iron, and to have reached the sea east of Odessa and the port of Nikolaev...
...could hardly take the form of a full-scale invasion-they have not now the equipment to tackle the Germans successfully on the Continent-but rather a series of raids at widely scattered points from Norway to Spain. The British remember well Sir Francis Drake's audacious dash into Cadiz the year before the Armada sailed. He destroyed 10,000 tons of enemy sail that day, and later bragged of "singeing the King of Spain's beard...
...campaign. He urged the people of the occupied countries to mark the letter everywhere, even on the backs of German officers. According to reports that leaked out in a few places, they actually did. "He told people how to tap it out in Morse Code, three dots and a dash, recommended it as a signal for calling waiters, knocking on doors, blowing auto horns, bugles and train whistles. Soon that tat-tat-tat-too was heard all over Europe. He told them to call for Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, whose opening "fate-knocks-at-the-door" motif is three...
...beach the First Battalion set up its machine guns and mortars, disposed its riflemen. Just before dawn waves of beach boats began to rip through the surf. The First opened up with a chatter of blank-cartridge fire as two attacking battalions splashed through the shallows, made a dash for the cover of the dunes, dug in. It was around ten o'clock and everybody was sweating when Task Force 18 finally wound up its first landing party exercise...
Understanding and sharing his Negroes' love for foofaraw, Lieut. Colonel Wood has gone the limit to give the 41st splash and dash. His companies are organized by sizes: all the men in any company are within an inch of the same height (Company A's men are five feet, eleven inches and over; Company F's, five feet six and under). When the 41st was born, it had no band and wanted one badly. A Negro sergeant collected some battered drums and bugles, made them do until the regiment got a real band. Now the band leads...