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...legend is that the British will hold Gibraltar only so long as the Barbary apes (Macaca sylvana, Europe's only native species) remain there. Since 1780, when the chattering monkeys warned the garrison of a Spanish attack, the apes of Gibraltar have been tenderly cherished. In 1872 a subaltern who shot two of them for stealing his wardrobe was court-martialed, required to apologize publicly. Nowadays the apes are free to roam the Rock's caves and roads. The military administration even includes an official charged with keeping the apes alive, healthy and procreative. He is known...
...Force bombed and strafed the foe, special officers attached to each column directing the air attacks by radio. Soon panic spread through the German ranks. Their lines gave. Savage fighting boiled over into the streets of Gorodok. By 2 o'clock one afternoon last week, the German garrison-two infantry divisions, one tank division-gave up the battle. In Moscow, 124 cannon boomed a salute to victory...
Noumea, the capital, was rundown, poverty-stricken. The banana-shaped, 250-mile-long island, defended by an ill-armed garrison and ancient cannon, would have dropped like a ripe banana into the hands of the Japs. So the French welcomed U.S. forces, at first. But U.S. forces soon outnumbered the colonists and, with the vanishing of a Jap invasion threat, irritations between the two populations cropped...
Nowhere, save at Blue Beach, did the Sixth Army encounter the defenses or the bloody kind of resistance found at Munda and Tarawa. Its casualties were light. It quickly dispersed a numerically weak Jap garrison. Within five hours it had made good the landing. The Arawe peninsula and its key coastal isles were taken. The mopping up was not completed when U.S. troops began to enlarge their beachhead...
...killed, 2,680 wounded. Most casualties (95%) were marines who fell on Tarawa's Betio island. The Gilberts' 5,700 Jap garrison was virtually wiped...