Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twice the Italian garrison had been invited to surrender. Admiral Gino Pavesi, senior Italian officer, and his men clung to Pantelleria's 32 sq. mi. of volcanic rock. Each refusal increased the tempo of attack. First the Spadillo airfield was blown to bits. Then the island's one good harbor, a nest for E-boats and submarines harassing the Sicilian straits, was smashed. Low-flying planes bounced their bombs down ramps leading to underground hangars. "Pattern bombing" crushed gun emplacements...
Against this gain the Chinese on their side this week could record the first solid tactical success in three weeks: swiftly marshaling a unit of undisclosed strength behind the southern flank, they turned the Japanese line, broke into the pass of Yuyangkwan, ousted a Japanese garrison and sent troops hotfoot after the Japanese retreating toward the east. The Chinese Air Force, for the first time in three years, was making an all-out effort to support ground operations, and elements of America's Fourteenth Air Force moved up to the Central China area for strategic bombing...
...miles northeast of this week's fierce battle for the Yangtze River gorges (see p. 33). The Chiang Government hotly denied it. Wang's army is not a trustworthy army; despite purges, it is honeycombed with Chiang sympathizers. But it has relieved regular Jap units of garrison duty, helped Tokyo meet a serious manpower shortage, may some day take the field against Chiang...
Lawrence Charles Antonellis, Jr., (Mathematics and Economics), Edwin Turner Baker (History and Literature), Gilbert Corwin (Geological Sciences), Edward William Garrison (Engineering Sciences), Norman Kingsley Mailer, William Artyn Main (Economics), Alan Lee Reade (Mathematics), Samuel Boice Richardson, Jose Nicasio Rodrigues Feo (History and Literature), John Phillip Schafer (Biology), Robert Boone Stewart, Rolland Dinwiddie Thompson (Architectural Sciences...
...real victory dinner of roast beef, carrots and plenty of good red wine that night while rifle and machine gun fire was still crackling up and down the dark streets outside," Lang cabled, "and then we three correspondents slept in the Majestic-the only Allied garrison in Tunis...