Word: flamed
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...Flame. Then there was the hellish vortex of battle-the high-pitched screeches and sharp bursts of shells, the awful concussions, the crunching torture of the earth itself. The Russian tanks passed on and over...
Thus, in a 70-mile arc of flame and steel, had the soldiers of Red Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, Stalin's designated conqueror of Berlin, come up to the outskirts of the Nazi capital. They had left behind, on the roads and fields back to Küstrin and Schwedt, thousands of dead German soldiers, more thousands of prisoners, hills of wreckage. In five days they had fought through five defense belts, smashing down a great concentration of enemy tanks in what may have been the war's biggest battle of armor. Now they could pierce the heart...
...toward the wounded craft. The pilot was diving in low, at about a 15-degree angle. Terrific ack-ack poured into his plane and soon it was burning. But the Jap never wavered. He smacked into the middle of the smoke and a huge billow of orange-red flame reached...
...openings. It was a clean room with no smell. At one end was a wash basin with soap still in the dish and a door leading to the "Büro or office. At the other was a plaque hung high on the wall, black with a symbolic flame painted on it and a quotation from some German poet: "Let not disgusting worms consume my body . . . give me the clean bright flame...
...ovens were not clean. In some of them there were still charred remains, a grinning, blackened skull, a chest from which the flesh was still not fully burned away, skeletons half melted down. The ovens were cold now but in recent weeks before the Americans came their clean bright flame consumed between 150 and 200 people daily...