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- The Japanese had heavily fortified these island outposts; to capture them, Marines would have to mount offensive thrusts into the teeth of an armed and waiting enemy.†
Chpt 4. *fortified = to make stronger
- In 1943, there were reasonable military officers in the Pacific who expressed serious doubts whether "any fortified island could ever be assaulted by amphibious forces.†
Chpt 4.
- But as Tarawa had shown (and as future battles were to show again), no amount of aerial bombing or naval bombardment—regardless of how obliterating it might look from a bombardier's sights or from the deck of a destroyer—was going to dislodge these deeply entrenched Japanese from their obsessively fortified Pacific islands.†
Chpt 5.
- Mike, Harlon, Franklin, Ira, Rene, and Doc no doubt pay close attention to the strange little fortified volcanic mountain down near the beach where they'll rush ashore.†
Chpt 6.
- He was astounded by its many overlapping swirls and heavy rectangles and triangles, each figure denoting a weapon emplacement or a fortified blockhouse.†
Chpt 6.
- He would later write: "The prolonged aerial bombardment of Iwo Jima, which was a daily occurrence for over seventy days, had no appreciable effect in the reduction of the enemy's well-prepared and heavily fortified defensive installations."†
Chpt 6.
- No longer would the Japanese soldiers mount banzai charges; now they were ordered to fight from heavily fortified underground tunnels and caves.†
Chpt 6.
- He would fortify the interior of the island and make it a killing field, hoping the exorbitant casualties would make the Marines falter and perhaps cause the civilians in America to pause in their desire to invade the Japanese mainland.†
Chpt 6.
- To these ends he ordered that his forces cede the beach to the invaders, and that they move their fortifications underground.†
Chpt 6.
- By the time he was finished, Iwo Jima would become the most heavily fortified island of World War II.†
Chpt 6.fortified = to make stronger
- Soon the best fortifications specialists in the Japanese army arrived on Iwo: quarry experts, mining engineers, labor battalions, and fortress units.†
Chpt 6.
- Easy Company rolled in on the twelfth wave at 9:55 A.M. Easy was part of Harry the Horse's 28th Regiment, whose special mission was to land on Green Beach One—the stretch nearest Mount Suribachi, just four hundred yards away, on the left—and then form a ribbon of men across the narrow neck of the island, isolating the fortified mountain and ultimately capturing it.†
Chpt 7.fortified = to make stronger
- And yet the Americans did inflict damage that hellish first morning—by the same excruciating means they would continue to inflict it for thirty-six days, until all the 22,000 defenders were wiped out: by exposing themselves to fire, charging the fortified blockhouses and cave entrances, and shooting or incinerating their tormentors at close range.†
Chpt 7.
- Now the 3,000 men of the 28th would begin their dangerous advance southward toward the volcano, while the other 33,000 Marines on the island would fight their way north across the island's main mass, toward the airfields and the high fortified ground on the northern rim.†
Chpt 8.
- At eight-thirty A.M. a thin line of unprotected American boys would arise and rush directly at the most fortified mountain in the history of the world.†
Chpt 9.
- Suribachi's interior had been hollowed out into a fantastical seven-story subterranean world, fortified with concrete revetments and finished off with plastered walls, a sewer system, and conduits for fresh air, electricity, water, and steam.†
Chpt 9.
- But the Japanese—even as their ingenious fortifications crumbled or were scorched hollow—were not quite done with their own desperate resolve.†
Chpt 9.
- It would be a battle of attrition on terrain that had no front lines; where the attackers were exposed and the defenders fortified; where Japanese infiltrators stalked the night; where every rock, every ditch, every open stretch of ground could conceal a burrowing, suicidal enemy.†
Chpt 13.fortified = to make stronger
- Easy had to cross rough, exposed ground against a heavily fortified ridge.†
Chpt 13.
- History is filled with examples of high casualties in battle, but few armies with front-line losses of over fifty percent have been ordered to keep attacking, especially in the face of heavy fortifications.†
Chpt 13.
- Brutal, deadly, and dangerous combat aimed at an underground, heavily fortified, nonretreating enemy.†
Chpt 13.fortified = to make stronger
Definitions:
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(1)
(fortify) to make strongerin various senses, including:
- to add defensive fortifications to a site to withstand attack -- as in "fortify the camp"
- to make a structure or organization stronger -- as in "fortify the wall"
- to inspire emotional and mental strength -- as in "fortify her spirits"
- to strengthen an argument -- as in "fortify our argument"
- to add nutrients to increase the healthfulness -- as in "bread fortified with folic acid and iron"
- to add alcohol to make a drink stronger and/or less prone to spoiling -- as in "port, sherry, madeira, and other fortified wines"
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)