Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops broke through Jap lines on the north and south. Flame throwers proved the answer to the Jap's bombproof, duplex bunkers. Soldiers advanced under Jap guns and sprayed fire from two sides into the gun openings and eyeslits, scorching the Japs out. Ingenious mechanics improved on the tactic by affixing flame throwers to the light marine tanks. These blowtorched the path into Munda. In the last days little Jap resistance remained. The cumulative effect of the tremendous bombing and shelling to which Munda had been subjected...
...nailed two of his six, but the other four, flying in the unbroken formation that modern battle demands, picked off three Zeros and fought through. (Fighting Three's record in that battle: 70 Jap "probables" against seven lost.) That day, for the first time, Fighting Three proved another tactic of its leader: the Thach Weave, a protective maneuver (secret) based on the four-plane division...
Strong political appeals are also madi to the Chinese. Japanese propaganda de clares that the Allies are not fulfilling their promises of aid, that U.S. forces live like kings while Chinese troops grovel like beggars. Whereas the Japanese economic tactic was once plunder, it is now construction and trade. The Japanese armies lash out, not to demolish the Chinese armies, but to scorch Free Chinese earth, as in the Lake District. There are also appeals to the future: whereas the Allies have promised to give up extraterritoriality after the war, Tojo's government announced that on March 30 Japan...
...Tactic. But most important of all, the conferees devised a tactic which will make it possible for the Allies to use their equipment offensively against the U-boat, not passively and defensively. The tactic was designed to counter the U-boat scheme of hunting in wolf packs...
...advantage of the continuing conferences is that the participants-an impressive variety of men and services-will be able to give this tactic a fair try. If it fails, they can devise another, as a single commander might not be big enough or quick enough...