Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans in Yugoslavia seemed to be rapidly closing the dangerous Dalmatian gap in the wall of Axis Europe. Credit for this achievement went to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, whose command in northern Italy was recently extended to include Yugoslavia...
...General Motors' board chairman, in a Cleveland speech declared that G.M. had no commercial planes designed before the war, has none now, has no engineers available to do the engineering work necessary before a-plane-in-every-garage can become a reality. Added G.M.'s president, Charles Erwin Wilson, at the same meeting: in his opinion, aircraft would not "be a big thing with General Motors immediately after the war," although the corporation "will stay in the aircraft field...
Said the Boston-published Christian Science Monitor's able, scholarly managing editor, Erwin D. Canham: "The Monitor has been investigating anti-Jewish violence in Boston for many months. We [did not] print a comprehensive story [because] many responsible leaders in the Jewish community were grievously disturbed at the prospect of publicity, fearing it would do more harm than good...
...Germans contended with a slowly organizing Italian guerrilla force, most active in the woods and mountains of northern Italy. They might not yet be a major threat to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's garrisons. But they diverted German troops badly needed elsewhere, and they were growing. They were led by Italian Army officers, stiffened by escaped British prisoners of war, aided by the countryside's peasantry. They controlled villages ungarrisoned by the enemy. They sabotaged rail and road communications vital to German transport. Against them the Nazis rallied the bedraggled remnant of Benito Mussolini's blackshirts, decreed...
...Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, key man of Mediterranean defense, supposedly has 13 divisions in northern Italy busy digging defenses across the top of the boot. Another seven in the south, under Rommel-hating Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, soon may be joining Rommel. An indication that Nazi strength in upper Italy may have been exaggerated came from a London Daily Express correspondent. He slipped into Italy from Switzerland, found "a trifling German army" in the region of Milan. One possibility: Rommel has his troops well dug into the border mountains, is policing the cities with a skeleton force...