Word: communique
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...resistance. Italian defenders in pillboxes fired several rounds and came out with their hands in the air. Italian civilians came out of their houses announcing that the Germans had left three days before, retiring into the hills. At Allied headquarters in Algiers a press officer read out a brief communiqué: "Allied forces under the command of General Eisenhower have continued their advance...
...wanted men were taken into custody, and the machine of the law went into operation. Later in the day the appropriate communiqué was issued by the R.A.F. station commander to the effect that our mechanized forces withdrew after achieving their objective and "from these operations all our aircraft returned safely...
...conversations got very far, he would rage and rant. One official saw Hess alone one day, decided to get started on an amiable course. Said the official: "There's some thing that has always interested me. In the Battle of Britain, to put it in round figures, British communiqués said Germany lost about 2,500 planes and we lost about 750. Now your communiqués said just about the opposite-that we lost 2,000 planes and Germany lost only about 650. How do you account for this wide difference in the totals...
...Navy communiqué announced the first U.S. warship casualties of the Sicilian campaign: the destroyer Maddox and the minesweeper Sentinel, lost on July 10-11 during landing operations...
...communiqué placed the attack "some weeks ago." It might well be that this successful action was one of those which marked the turning of the tide in the Atlantic battle...