Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mutinies had occurred in the Baltic Fleet, and in many garrison cities...
...advance continued, Kawacuchi, a corpsman in a division hospital, made daily entries in his diary. He recorded, as well as it has been done anywhere, the strange mixture of animal courage and fatalism which motivates the U.S. enemy in the Pacific. This week, as a still greater Jap garrison on Okinawa felt the weight of U.S. arms, the Office of Censorship released Kawacuchi's diary [which had been found by a U.S. Naval officer]. Excerpts...
...lightning lunges U.S. troops invaded Cebu and Negros, the last of the larger Philippine islands. Liberation was proceeding apace. But on Luzon, where a sizable Japanese garrison was dug in. General MacArthur's men were fighting out a slow, bitter, bloody campaign...
...artillery shells rained down on Coblenz - one of them blowing to smithereens a statue of Emperor Wilhelm I. Then, one evening, a lone U.S. medium tank equipped with a loudspeaker rolled up to the Moselle river bank and hurled a surrender ultimatum across to the survivors of the Coblenz garrison. There was no answer...
Three weeks of battle as bitter as any the world has known had raged on Iwo Jima, drenching its black ash beaches, ravines and cliffs in blood. The Japanese garrison was being squeezed into an ever smaller band around the northern shore, but it was fighting with D-day savagery. Its commander, Lieut. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, was still in radio contact with Tokyo. Most of the defenders had ample food and water (although some isolated positions had been short of water in the first days of the campaign). They had only a few mortars and cannon left, but they used...