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...Crimea, Red troops slowly pushed their way in through two narrow corridors. For the garrison of some 75,000 German and Rumanian troops this was a futile battle: even a sea escape was no longer likely, with Russian bombers operating west of the Crimea and the Black Sea Fleet out on a hunt...
...Germans, busy in the Balkans and Italy, seemingly paid little attention. But after weeks of reconnaissance and preparation, they started to recoup their losses. Last month, some 4,000 German seaborne troops recaptured Cos in the Dodecanese from a tiny garrison of British troops and R.A.F. ground personnel...
Down on the Jap garrison at Sangagai swooped two Marine detachments. One party, moving along the beach, struck the Japs just at mealtime (2 p.m.-the Japs did not observe daylight saving.) Said The Brute: "The Nips immediately scampered into the mountains and met head on with our [other] force coming down. They put up a very nice fight but made the mistake of trying one of those banzai charges . . . our machine guns just chopped them to pieces. One of our men lost the tripod of his machine gun. He picked it up like one of those Victor McLaglen movies...
...After a hard battle, two beachheads were won near Kerch. Cut off from all land routes of escape, the German garrison in the Crimea was now being slowly compressed...
...Brigadier General Garrison H. Davidson, 39, famed onetime West Point footballer and coach promoted for outstanding work overseas with the engineers...