Word: communique
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...died on the slope below. Collier's War Correspondent Frank Gevasi reported: "I saw 800 [Americans] go out and 24 come back, because the Germans could see every move and turn their fire on them." And the Germans, after noting heavy, bloody U.S. losses, laconically reported in a communiqué that Indian Gurkha troops had replaced "the worn-out Americans...
...Selective Service Act, predicted last week that his national service bill will pass, after a slow uphill battle in Congress. But Washington betting was against it. Jimmy Wadsworth, however, might be betting, along with the President, that General Eisenhower will contribute to Congressional debate with some very solemn communiqu...
...fiercest fight. General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had secretly switched his Canadians out of the Apennines to make them part of the spearhead he thrust towards the key Adriatic port of Pescara. For the first time since Sicily, the Canadians were being regularly mentioned in Allied communiqués. Those fighting on an eight-mile front were battlewise veterans of Sicily. They had been with the Eighth Army in its 500-mile march across the heel and up Italy's Adriatic coast. In their rear were reinforcements soon to be merged in a new Canadian Corps under...
...bald communiqué from Bougainville said: "Our ground forces enlarged their perimeter. ..." From that bleached and pickled bit of news, one Marine, back in Washington from the beachhead on Empress Augusta Bay, reconstructed a nightmare narrative. The story of stocky, red-haired Technical Sergeant Harold Azine, in civilian life a radio-program director, on Bougainville a combat correspondent...
Episode at Changteh. Unmelting Chinese troops last week crept back through the blackened ruins of Changteh, harassing the bedraggled, bandy-legged Japanese in retreat toward their Yangtze River bases. The communiqués once again created an impression of another violent battle in a continuous, violent war. The impression was exaggerated: the battle of Changteh was violent enough, but it was an interlude in an essentially unviolent war. As in previous foraging expeditions, the Japs had pushed into the Tungting Lake rice bowl of central China. The Chinese 57th Division fought with hand grenades and bayonets until only 300 were...