Word: sectored
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Apparently the Nazis still have it in for TIME," he cabled last week, "for I tried twice to get into Caen before the city fell and ran into a curtain of artillery fire both times-first in the British sector, later in the Canadian. ... Then along came two Frenchmen as unconcerned as if they were on a walking tour. 'Oh, no, mes amis, the Boche are not shelling.' So into the jeep we got and headed again for Caen...
This extension of the active front (to 500 miles) put the Nazi in the highly uncomfortable position of a man standing on two chairs which are being slowly pulled apart. The Germans declared that the Red offensive had spread as far south as Tarnopol, opposite Lvov. About this sector, the Russians were mum. But on their long-range goal, they were by no means mum. The Moscow radio blared: "Russian armies are smashing westward, and . . . the game is up. The Germans squealed at our declaration that we were making straight for Berlin, but these were no empty words...
Along the Tyrrhenian Sea Lieut. General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army, stymied on the coastal road, threw its shoulder against a sector farther inland. It heaved through the hills to outflank the port of Leghorn, Italy's third largest, which the Allies must have for the assault on the Gothic Line...
...section had been shot down, Mitch Paige hefted a machine gun, and, scribbling the night with fire, played lethal tag with the enemy. Reinforced, he led the fresh men in a counterattack. At battle's end, no Japanese lay dead before Mitch Paige's sector. Said he: "I did what I could...
...minutes on Sunday afternoon the guns were silent and even snipers held their fire. Toward the German lines, in the sector east of Saint-Lô on the Normandy front, bustled a U.S. jeep. Behind it followed two ambulances. In them were eight German nurses, captured in Cherbourg, now being returned to the Germans...