Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deficit) when pressure was put on from Berlin. She had chrome to offer the U.S. and Britain when they put the heat on (the U.S. is now receiving all the chrome that Germany is not). She could insist, and rightly, that her neutrality was protecting Britain's flank when the Wehrmacht reached the eastern Mediterranean. To Germany, if Hitler tried invasion, she could offer the prospect of stiff resistance in rugged country, almost devoid of communications. She has trumps of war today for the Allies: some 1,500,000 men whose fighting qualities are superb, despite their lack...
Against this gain the Chinese on their side this week could record the first solid tactical success in three weeks: swiftly marshaling a unit of undisclosed strength behind the southern flank, they turned the Japanese line, broke into the pass of Yuyangkwan, ousted a Japanese garrison and sent troops hotfoot after the Japanese retreating toward the east. The Chinese Air Force, for the first time in three years, was making an all-out effort to support ground operations, and elements of America's Fourteenth Air Force moved up to the Central China area for strategic bombing...
...success at Yuyangkwan could be further exploited, the Japanese position was not enviable. The bulk of their strength, estimated at several divisions, was concentrated on the northern flank for a breakthrough, presumably against the western outlet of the Yangtze gorges. Now this concentration, outflanked, its rear threatened, would either have to achieve that break-through within a minimum of time, or retreat...
...objective while the hill to the north of the pass, which dominated the 34th's objective, was still in enemy hands. U.S. infantry works better in enveloping tactics. If the hill to the north had been taken first, and then the southern hills attacked from either flank, the story of Fondouk might have been written differently...
...Then came the long expected new attack. The hell we had been hearing from the right flank broke loose all along the front. From all sides the murderous rebels were leading their freebooters into the bayonet attack. Among them we could see many women with rifles in their hands. . . . We were strained to the utmost. Our nerves were breaking ... the situation was critical, hopeless . . . then came the Stukas bringing ammunition, but the enemy is far superior, many times superior. In the end it is no longer possible to prevent them from capturing all our positions in the southern part...