Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweep through the Ukraine in 1941, the Battle of the Bulge-and the loss of Normandy and the Rhine-told U.S. correspondents that Allied air power was the biggest factor in Germany's defeat. He said that Hitler had ordered the Ardennes counteroffensive which almost reached the rear supply areas of the U.S. First Army; that Hitler had passed on every major military decision since the start of the war, and that he had ''good intuition." Rundstedt did not doubt that Hitler had died, as represented, on the Berlin barricades-or from overwork. "Der Führer...
...operations plan was known as "Foo-Foo." In preparation the Australian First Tactical Air Force had flown the 1,400-mile round trip from Morotai to bomb Tarakan heavily. U.S. bombers of the Thirteenth Air Force added their bit. Then U.S. Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey sailed his light task force of cruisers and destroyers in for four days' naval bombardment. Foo-Foo really got rolling when U.S. Rear Admiral Forrest B. Royal brought up his Seventh Fleet landing craft loaded with tough, felt-hatted veterans of the illustrious 9th Australian Division and a token Dutch force...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., after guiding his destroyer escort through a two-hour hunt for a slippery Jap sub marine, wound up with a kill which Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey described as "one of the most efficiently conducted anti-submarine operations within my knowledge." The Admiral recommended Lieut. Commander Roosevelt for the Legion of Merit...
...tail was a 19-year-old gunner. When he heard the crash he made for the escape hatch. It was jammed. He tried to get through the rear window: too small. Long minutes later, Belgian peasants saw the tailpiece sail to earth. They picked the unconscious gunner from the wreck, got him to a hospital...
...infantry and one armored divisions of the U.S. First Army had pulled up along the narrow Mulde River, a western tributary of the Elbe. One morning a patrol from the 69th Division's 273rd Regiment, sent out to direct surrendering German soldiers and liberated Allied prisoners to the rear, rolled beyond its officially prescribed radius of action and found itself in Torgau. This patrol consisted of four Yanks in a jeep-Second Lieutenant William D. Robertson, a small, wiry officer from Los Angeles, and three enlisted...