Tactics the Eastern Front, both sides were mostly confined to tactical bombing The Western Allies tactically bombed German and Italian armed forces, but in addition they overflew these to bomb Germany’s industrial plant and cities The Western Allies and Japanese each bombed tactically in support of ground forces in the Pacific and CBI theaters, while the USAAF flew strategic bombing missions from southern China against Japanese targets in Manchuria and the home islands See various campaigns and battles See also bombers; precision bombing; skip bombing; Tedder’s carpet TACTICS The art and skill of maneuvering small-scale military forces in combat in a single engagement, or a series of small engagements Movement and fighting of larger units is referred to as operational art For period examples of tactics see airborne; anti-submarine warfare; area bombing; artillery; assault guns; banzai charge; close air support; covering fire; creeping barrage; fire for effect; fire plan; Gefechtstreifen; infi ltration; ironing; interdiction; kamikaze; keil und kessel; Luftwaffe; marching fire; motti; murder; Panzerjägdgruppe; passage of lines; penal battalions; prearranged fire; reconnaissance by fire; Raumnachtjadg; self-propelled guns; rolling barrage; serenade; skip bombing; standing barrage; snipers; stonk; storm groups; Taitari; Tedder’s carpet; time on target; torpedoes; Wellenbrecher; WERWOLF; Widerstandsnest; Wilde Sau; wolf pack; Zahme Sau TAI’ERZHUANG, BATTLE OF (APRIL 6–7, 1938) See Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) Also “Taierhchwang.” TAIFUN (SEPTEMBER 30–DECEMBER 4, 1941) “Typhoon.” The code name of the Wehrmacht offensive operation launched toward Moscow in the autumn of 1941 Army Group Center, led by Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, had broken the main Soviet defenses 200 miles from Moscow in the middle of July, during the first phase of the long Battle of Smolensk ( July–September, 1941) Adolf Hitler and the OKW then turned the bulk of mobile forces against the flanks, reinforcing a thrust to Leningrad in the north and two great Kesselschlacht (“cauldron battles”) at Uman and Kiev in the south Hitler did not order a resumption of the advance on Moscow until September 6, when he issued Führer Directive #35 Army Group Center was strongly reinforced with the addition of 3rd Panzergruppe under General Hermann Hoth and with a Fliegerkorps drawn from Army Group North and more combat aircraft advanced from the Luftwaffe reserve General Heinz Guderian arrived with 2nd Panzergruppe, returned to Bock’s command after spectacular successes in Ukraine Along with Colonel General Erich Hoepner’s 4th Panzergruppe, Bock had available the largest concentration of German armor to date—three full Panzergruppen— and over 1.9 million men as he prepared a second lunge at Moscow To reach Moscow the Germans would have to smash through the Ostashkov– Pochep Line 200 miles west of the city Three Red Army Fronts stood opposite Army Group Center Western Front, under General Ivan S Konev, fielded six armies holding the north end of the Ostashkov–Pochep Line Marshal Semyon Budyonny was 1062