Word: garrisoned
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...virtually wiped out twelve days after the landing. Allied troops entered Marseilles, reportedly scheduled for capture on D-plus-50, on D-plus-eight. La Cannebire, heart of France's second city, was a no man's land for six days thereafter, until the last German garrison gave...
...outstanding Soviet success of the week was achieved below Warsaw on the Vistula, where wily, leathery Marshal Konev captured the important rail town of Sandomierz, destroyed the Nazi garrison of three divisions, enlarged his bridgehead across the Vistula to 1,600 square miles. Adolf Hitler was said to have called Konev's position "a pistol pointed at the German empire...
...China's war-within-a-war, a great battle had ended in Chinese defeat: after six weeks of siege, heroic Hengyang, on the Hankow-Canton railway, fell to the Japanese. The last word from Hengyang's starving, desperate Chinese garrison went on the radio just a few hours before the end. Said Hengyang's commander: "I am afraid this may be my last message...
...could it be? Guam's garrison had been taken by the Japs almost 31 months before. The ship put over a small boat. The man on the beach waded out into the surf to meet it. In the strangely soft voice of a man whose vocal cords have not been used for months, he told his story. He was the last man of the Guam garrison and he had hidden on the island until the fleet came back again...
...days, calculating and recording the changes of the moon. "It was pretty important for me to know when the moon would be full and the nights would be dark," Tweed said reflectively, recalling how he had lived the animal life of the hunted. Not until the Jap Navy garrison declared Tweed dead (in order not to lose face with a Jap Army garrison that followed it), did the search for him cease...