Word: followup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Which last week was thinking of postwar reunions of alumni and children for a followup in family relations...
...Punch. Still another day, and a U.S. air fleet, estimated at 1,600 to 2,000 bombers and fighter escorts, launched a blow deep into South Germany, hitting Augsburg and four other towns. By nightfall, the R.A.F. crews were briefed and ready for a heavy followup, aimed mainly at Frankfort on the Main. And through the week, almost obscured by the work of the heavy bombers, fleets of mediums and fighter bombers struck methodically at Western France, dropped 5,000 tons of bombs in five days...
Against such defenses, the typical blitz-the quick shock, the breakthrough, the spearing advance by planes, tanks and mobile artillery, then the followup by infantry-will not serve as it did in Poland, in the Lowlands, in Russia's first months. Now, in depth and thorough preparation, the Russian defenses are stronger than those which slowed the Nazi drive last fall, then stopped it with winter's paralyzing help. But, if Stalin and his staff have learned how to crack the 1940-model blitz. Hitler's generals have had many months to study Soviet defense. Moscow...