Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...base of the Cotentin Peninsula, severing it from the rest of Nazi-held France; 4) to swing north and take (from the rear) the great port of Cherbourg. In the first week, everything depended on the Allies' ability to land enough sup plies on the obstacle-strewn beaches to sustain their forces until Cherbourg could be taken. Thereafter, Cherbourg would be the port of entry. It was a foregone conclusion that the Nazis' demolitions would wreck the tide gates of Cherbourg's commercial basin; they might have some temporary success in blocking the entrances to the harbor by sinking ships...
...detail incomprehensible to the civilian mind. Item: the Navy's overall plan for the operation ran to 800 type written pages; a complete set of naval orders including maps weighed 300 pounds. Yet the broad outlines were simple : 1) organize the force; 2) move it across; 3) sustain it on the beachhead. For this the Allies deployed their great strength, the 4,000 ships, 11,000 planes, hundreds of thousands of men, machines, guns. Ike's Nature. The master of this titanic effort is a generally affable, obviously brainy, 53-year-old Midwestern American. As a professional soldier...
...sustain further loss and damage. Tragic though they may be, they are part of the price of victory. . . . I shall do all in my power to mitigate your hardships. I know that I can count on your steadfastness...
...workers of a construction company, headed by John Payne, sustain heavy losses of men while building a Navy strip on a Pacific island which is attacked twice by the Japanese. An ambush designed to trap the Japanese fails of success because of the blundering of Payne, who leads his men--armed only with rifles and riding bulldozers and steam rollers--into the teeth of the landing force. Later he redeems himself by saving the island from a second attack. The whole affair makes the necessity of having an armed construction corps apparent to Washington, and the Seabees (tarantara) are organized...
...spokesman for Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, U.S. strategic bombing chief, reported that "all the losses we have suffered in the first four assaults on Berlin were replaced in a matter of hours. . . . Replacements are now automatic from the huge reserves built up in Britain to sustain the air drive...