Word: garrisoning
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...schools, of teaching from the textbooks. For 14 years Major Courtney Hodges had no promotions. Like many another professional soldier, he learned again that in peace the soldiers' rewards are small and few. But it was his life. He read, studied, worked with characteristic precision at field and garrison duties...
...French Red Cross workers cycled along the causeway that leads across the marshes outside Dunkirk. They passed safely through the German lines, pedaled through no man's land to the British lines. There they delivered a message from the German garrison commander. He wanted a truce to permit evacuation of Dunkirk's 20,000 civilians before the final battle, in which the city was certain to be destroyed...
...troops marched unopposed until they reached Patras (prewar pop. about 60,000), third largest city of Greece. After four days' fighting with a garrison of about 1,000 Germans, the battle ended when the Greek collaborators surrendered, the Germans took to their Diesel-propelled ferries by night...
...leader of the partisans, the man who made himself known to the world as General Bor, flashed a message to the Polish government in London: "Warsaw has fallen after exhausting all supplies and ammunition on the 63rd day of the struggle. . . ." Then Bor surrendered to the Germans with his garrison, his staff and his wife, who had borne a child during the uprising...
...weeks ago, a Jap invasion fleet from Formosa nosed up to the mouth of the Min, downstream from Foochow (see map). Assault troops swarmed ashore and drove swiftly to the suburbs of the port, whose garrison had held out in hope of welcoming an Allied invasion force. Last week a second landing was made on the south bank of the Min, catching Foochow between the two Jap columns...