Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three-day action while 15,000 more backed them up on the supply lines and in the air. Strategically it was also the most significant. In that area, east of the St. Lawrence River town of Ogdensburg (captured by the British in 1813), Army troops would be gathered for flank assault if the U. S. should be invaded from Canada...
...made contact with the Blacks. All night there was rifle fire from outposts along the Grass. Next dawn, Hugh Drum started the ball rolling. His first target was the flower of the Black Army: the motorized, mobile, battle-scarred Fighting First. Stationed on the Black Army's north flank, the First failed to watch the bank of the St. Lawrence, off to their right. There Hugh Drum started a flanking march by Maryland and Virginia infantry units, a company of Pennsylvania tanks. When the First came to, its supply train had been captured by the Maryland 5th Infantry...
...First day of the maneuvers he had whipped up a German-style motorized attack by putting the Irish 165th Infantry (of New York City) into trucks, backing them up with motorized cavalry, artillery, engineers. While the Blacks tried to fight their way out of the encirclement of their north flank, the motorized column, after riding all night, slammed them from the rear on the other flank. The Black Army's 26th National Guard division, squeezed front and rear, decided to retire, moved ten miles east to the next river (the Raquette) while the umpires recessed the battle...
...across the Raquette. Before dawn, while the bridges were still abuilding, infantrymen paddled across in assault boats, and rifle fire bit the dark. Again Hugh Drum's fast-moving motorized column, riding a motley assortment of green, red and white trucks, turned up on the Blacks' south flank. By noon the Blues' artillery had crossed the Raquette behind the infantry. With pleased but dead-pan faces at the power of tactics which threatened to about-face the invaders and back them against the St. Lawrence, umpires called...
...immediate danger, to ward off a future menace. Before the Conference met, each Latin-American complication, from the fate of the French Island of Martinique to Nazi activities in Uruguay, was a source of U. S. anxiety; after the Conference the prevailing belief was that the U. S. southern flank was se cured, provided means set up at the Havana Conference were implemented...