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...last-ditch Japanese defenders were split into pockets no more than a thousand yards square; Fleet Admiral Nimitz announced that organized resistance had ended. There was mopping-up still to be done: a few hundred of the enemy held out with machine guns, rifles and grenades. In the final pockets many of the enemy were killed; some committed hara-kiri with grenades or by jumping off the cliffs; some surrendered...
Random Harvest. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., F. M. Griswold stepped out into his frontyard, just missed falling into a ditch from which thieves had, overnight, uprooted his seven-year-old hedge...
Born of Desperation. The basis of future Japanese naval and naval-air war was thus laid bare. With their air force in tatters and their navy cut to shreds, the enemy was preparing for a last-ditch defense by any means at hand. And to the Japanese, that meant murder and suicide...
...last confused, useless fighting in Europe was along the eastern front, where some panicky fanatics fired wildly at the dreaded Russians, and in Czechoslovakia, where patriots had risen to battle German troops for the capital city of Prague. There, a day after the overall surrender, a few last-ditch Nazis were still shooting, burning and looting...
...passion of a home-state mountaineer. But last week McKellar discovered that, despite his new power in the Senate, he had been boxed in. Good friend Truman had already enhanced the McKellar prestige by inviting him to attend Cabinet meetings; the Senator from Tennessee could ill afford a last-ditch patronage row at the very start of the Truman Administration...