Word: maneuverable
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From Camp Blanding, Fla. to Fort Lewis, Wash, the U.S. Army plugged at battle training. The emphasis was on operations of the battalion Majors, younger and slimmer than the Army had seen since World War I, led their outfits far into the field to march and dig in combat exercises...
In the Java action itself the U.S. navy lost only the heavy cruiser Houston, which had carried President Roosevelt some 25,000 miles through the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific, and the old (World War I) destroyer Pope. The British lost the heavy cruiser Exeter, which by skillful maneuver drove the...
But Admirals Helfrich and Furstner, by then the dominant figures of The Netherlands Navy, were already at work on war plans and naval expansion. Their plan was offensive: continuous reconnaissance, hard and rapid stabs at the Jap, as far away from the Indies as possible. Their new Navy was geared...
This tribute was high on the list of 37 slogans distributed by Tass. Soviet news agency, to commemorate the Red Army's 24th anniversary (TIME, March 2). Last week came proof that the tribute was more than earned. In a maneuver encircling the Sixteenth German Army at Staraya Russa...
The result of this maneuver was in doubt at week's end (the German High Command called the report of the encirclement "plain nonsense"). Elsewhere the Red Army's anniversary push met stiffening resistance. A second Russian pincer, laid around Dorogobuzh in the central sector, had so far...