Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strength drained out of them by almost three years of the horror which began at Bataan. But they were still sick, emaciated, unarmed-still prisoners deep within the Jap lines. Jap combat troops, moving northeast along the highway which ran past the camp, used the prison's garrison barracks for temporary quarters. Japs in force were only a mile to the south...
Manpower. Germany has about 90 divisions fighting on secondary fronts (Italy, the Balkans), or on garrison duty in Norway and elsewhere, or isolated in the French ports, the Mediterranean islands, Latvia. From Hungary to East Prussia, Hitler had about 180 divisions with which to face Stalin's great winter offensive. In December, he had about 80 divisions, including reserves, marshaled against Eisenhower in the west. Last week the Russians claimed 295,000 Hitlerites killed, 86,000 captured since Jan. 12, and 200,000 more encircled in East Prussia. The U.S. had claimed 90.000 enemy casualties in the battle...
There was Russian power everywhere. The German garrison at Memel, which had held a last fragment of Lithuania since October, was overcome. And nearly 600 miles to the south, below Budapest, the Russians suddenly pushed out in new attacks...
...west, in Burma, five Japanese divisions had been destroyed, but five remained. They were all but cut off, and likely to be left for their nuisance value. In the rest of Southeast Asia were at least five more Jap divisions, plus brigades of garrison troops. The enemy was not ready to abandon Southeast Asia. In China he was busy tearing up spur lines to get ties and rails for completing the overland route to Indo-China. The only purpose of this line, if it is ever opened, would be to drag out resistance in the vast peninsula...
...hills west and northwest of the city the Germans hurled tanks and planes into a drive to reach their trapped garrison. They slashed more than halfway through the 30-mile-wide ring the Russians had thrown around the ancient capital, captured Esztergom, riverside anchor of the Red Army front south of the Danube. They were taking desperate chances, for north of the river the Russians were still rolling westward, an evergrowing menace to the German flank. But German commanders knew that success might dam the Russian tide flowing toward Austria. And Dr. Edmund Veehsenmayer, the Nazi Minister to Hungary...