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Memel and Memel territory (a narrow strip of land along the Niemen's north bank) are old East Prussian land. They were given to Lithuania after World War I; Hitler took them back by a bloodless coup in the spring of 1939. Fighting for Memel as desperately as they fought for Aachen on the west front, the Germans last week threw in four reinforcement divisions, launched 30 counterattacks in one day. They even attempted, vainly, an amphibious attack behind the Russian lines. At week's end Bagramian isolated the post by a drive south of it which reached...
...Yugoslavia got into the war on the Allied side with no premeditation and almost no preparation. The pro-Axis Regency of Prince Paul had been tolerated until March 1941. When it knuckled under to Hitler's demands that Yugoslavia become a German satellite, the Yugoslavs rebelled. In a bloodless coup détat they tossed out Regent Paul, installed King Peter II, 17. It took the Wehrmacht ten days to overrun the unprepared country. The British, who are believed to have inspired the coup against him, hauled Prince Paul away to South Africa, where they are still paying...
...Japanese troops had been trapped in pockets along the north coast. But for U.S. and Australian troops a grueling, malarial campaign which began two years ago (when the Japs almost took Port Moresby) had ended in a brilliant victory. Its final phase was all but bloodless...
...pretense of holding a continuous front. Along the last few roads open to the north they scuttled back in the worst rout of a German army on a western front since Tunisia. Allied forces raced up the peninsula after them, making up to 25 miles a day in near-bloodless pursuit. Town after town in Umbria, ancient land of the little-known Etruscans, fell virtually unharmed...
...after 6 p.m., three olive-drab Army trucks rolled up to Montgomery Ward's main entrance. Out jumped a 44-man unit of battle-helmeted Military Police under command of Lieut. Ludwig Pincura. Bayonets glinted in the afternoon sun. Followed by four enlisted men, Lieut. Pincura began his bloodless invasion. On the eighth floor the five pairs of Army brogans clattered across the green-and-white-squared linoleum, then moved noiselessly through the deep-carpeted executive offices...