Word: fiascos
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Sorely remembered now are more than 13,000 U.S. soldiers, including 35 U.S. generals, now in Japanese prison camps. Jonathan Wainwright, the man left behind to preside at his country's worst military fiasco, waits for death or liberation on Formosa, according to Jap reports. Three vague, hand-printed messages have come from him. That is all. Whether he is well or ill treated is not known. The Japanese look with scorn on the defeated...
Lifted Eyebrows. "Jumbo" Wilson's appointment to the job late in December had caused some eyebrow-lifting in British military circles. His most recent campaign as Middle East commander, the attack on the Aegean Islands of Cos, Samos and Leros had been a fiasco. Troops had been pushed within easy reach of German land-based air power; communications were so badly organized that landing parties had trouble contacting headquarters at Cairo 500 miles away; equipment was rusty and inadequate. Some wit rose to the occasion by dubbing Jumbo "The Wizard of Cos." Another commented that the Russians shoot generals...
Lost Chance. Since the Allies never really held the invaded islands, the loss was serious only because the abortive sorties had caused the Germans to look to their Balkan outworks. One possible effect was hardly mentioned: the effect on neutral Turkey. The Aegean fiasco might well slow the Turks' recent drift toward active collaboration with the Allies...
...fighting at Kursk [last July] witnessed the destruction of the main forces. ... [It] was the last German attempt to materialize the so-called German offensive. The offensive ended in a complete fiasco. ... If Stalingrad was a defeat.. . Kursk was a catastrophe...
...Hard Axis Shell. If the Allies launch an offensive toward the Balkans they will find some tough going at the main line of defense. The Germans have not been idle. Since their fiasco in Tunisia, they have poured troops into Greece and Bulgaria and have greatly strengthened their fortifications. Allied estimates are that the Germans have 60 divisions in the Balkans, commanded by such outstanding men as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, Air Chief of the Mediterranean; General Alexander Löhr, Commander of Balkan land forces. Top commander in the area was reported to be Field Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm Walther...