Word: fortressed
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...Mars Force), a Japanese suicide garrison had had enough after 28 days of siege by the Chinese 38th Division. Last week it was annihilated in an attempt at a breakout. Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan, theater commander, tramped through the smoldering ruins of Bhamo's teakwood fortress, called it one of the strongest Jap positions in north Burma...
...night Athens was awesome. The darkness which engulfed the city was periodically pierced by flares parachuted by the R.A.F. to reveal ELAS troop movements. The floating flares also revealed the Parthenon in a new, glowing beauty. The Acropolis was again a fortress. Under cover of night British paratroopers descended on the historic (and once more strategic) eminence, found it unoccupied. All round them was ELAS-land, but the skytroopers were confident they could hold the precipitous heights against any assault. The only troops which had ever taken the Acropolis by storm were the Persians...
...representative of the, Lublin Committee, writing in Pravda, claimed frontiers up to the Oder River for the new Poland.) Churchill did not say who was to get the bigger part of East Prussia, including the port and fortress of Königsberg, to which the Russians have staked claims...
...street were waiting to hear Dean Arne Fjellbu. At 2 p.m., the hour scheduled for Fjellbu's afternoon service, police appeared with clubs to keep the crowd from entering. The huge throng stood patiently outside the Cathedral. Presently a single voice began the great Lutheran hymn, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. Soon a multitude of voices were swelling the words the conquerors had learned to hate...
...enemy the Saarland was now no longer an arsenal, but a fortress to be held at whatever cost. Saarbrücken, the ''Little Pittsburgh,"* was apparently to be another Aachen, a building-to-building battleground. Saarlautern, the area's second city, was already a flaming ruin-the target for more than 6,000 German shells, because Major General Harry L. Twaddle's 95th Division had seized its chief bridge intact. In Dillingen, where Patton's men had overrun a major steel plant, the Americans were able to advance only a few hundred yards in five...