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...glared at them in silent reproach. The Red armies had overrun Minsk four days before, and were now rolling on far to the west, but the 70 Germans did not know that. They thought Minsk was still held by the Wehrmucht. When they started into the city, the Russian garrison mowed them down to the last...
Piecemeal Surrender. Amid formality as stiff as an inspection on West Point's plains, Collins asked Schlieben to surrender the entire Cherbourg garrison. The answer was a quick, emphatic "Nein...
...first of those tasks, it was well known, would be to revitalize his own Party, weeding out the old troops and putting them on garrison duty. The second would be to train the new younger troops for the G.O.P.'s great assault on Franklin Roosevelt's political fortress...
Leaflets had warned the battered Cherbourg garrison to surrender or die. They were ignored: Nazi officers had orders to shoot, any man who attempted to retreat or give up. The attack was run off in the classic form that an army can achieve when it has overwhelming air power, plenty of good artillery, plenty of well-trained, hard-fighting infantrymen...
...baleful days the Jap Navy: ¶ Lost 30 ships sunk, plus two probably sunk. Fifty-one more were damaged. ¶ Lost 13 landing barges, complete with packed crews, most of them on the way to reinforce the garrison at Saipan. ¶ Lost 757 aircraft destroyed by U.S. aircraft...