Word: fortressed
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...stubborn Russian troops in the fortress of Sevastopol, a convoy ran in supplies across the Black Sea. Meanwhile, in rear areas, tank engines were tuned, fuel moved forward, every day the sun shone brighter. And every day Russians and Germans, like swimmers fighting in a millrace, were swept closer to the battle that may decide the fate of Europe...
...well as the Fifth and Sixth Chinese armies in Burma. But most of China's forces were naturally under Generalissimo Chiang. These problems of command ceased to be problems with the High Command working smoothly. Along the Bataan peninsula and across the blue Manila harbor waters to the fortress of Corregidor, the Japanese were threatening a final all-out attack. Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright's future was up to the High Command. And so was the future of the High Command...
...wild New Guinea coast, and they had raised the black New Guinea children in the ways of God. They were Germans, of course, but they were Lutheran Germans. When they sang, their song was some fine old Lutheran hymn like Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress...
...departure, General Yamashita had undoubtedly regrouped his forces. He had also moved some 240-mm. (about 9½ in.) guns into position somewhere along the edges of Manila Bay. They were the biggest guns yet used by the Jap in Luzon, and they began blasting at the fortress of Corregidor, where General Wainwright makes his headquarters...
...Japanese ships in Manila Bay last fortnight). And the cheering men and officers who said farewell in the Philippines could have done nothing but approve when they saw two others in the MacArthur party: his wife and son, who had lived under the guns of Corregidor Fortress with...