Word: snowstorms
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...they could muster. Their mile-long airstrips, built to handle planes of domestic transport size, were deep in snow. The day's chief speaker, CAA's Deputy Administrator Charles I. Stanton, was scheduled to fly to a dramatic, ribbon-cutting landing at the field. Grounded by the snowstorm, he arrived by train and auto hours late for the dedication...
Konev had plunged into the second phase of his offensive, had widened his front west of the Oder to 100 miles. He had broken across the Breslau-Berlin Autobahn, stood within 75 miles of Dresden. Konev matched his power with daring. In a snowstorm naked troops had plunged into the icy Oder, had pushed ahead of them doors, benches, barrels, anything that would float and keep uniforms and weapons dry. Many a Russian died with his boots off, but many more got across...
...North of there, the Germans still stood on Belgian soil in a small bend of the border. They were smacked by the famed 1st Infantry, the stout peg which had held down the north shoulder of Rundstedt's salient. The doughboys attacked at 4 a.m. in a heavy snowstorm, without artillery preparation, and gained two miles...
...mile strip of the Rhine's west bank, the French defenders of Strasbourg were squeezed on both sides. At week's end the French in the Belfort-Mulhouse area attempted a diversion by smacking the Colmar pocket's broad southern flank. Launched in a heavy snowstorm, this attack cut a deep gash in the enemy lines before it was slowed...
...Caldwell went out into the snowstorm, began to tinker with the television antenna. He made a discovery which so electrified him that last week he announced it in a press release: ELECTRIFIED SNOW FALLS IN CONNECTICUT...