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Some of them tried to escape in barges across Kula Gulf to Vila on Kolombangara Island. PT boats operating in the dark gulf took a heavy toll. The original Jap garrison at Bairoko was estimated at 400 men, probably increased later by troops retreating from Munda, twelve miles south...
...first time Jap resistance cracked under Allied pressure: a garrison was evacuated before the final attack. The cold rocks of Kiska had been gavelled under 106 bombings and 15 shellings from the sea since the first of the month. When U.S. and Canadian troops landed on Aug. 15-expertly primed for perhaps the strongest single operation the U.S. had yet undertaken in the Pacific-they found no living creature except a lonesome dog. The timing must have been hairline: invading Allied troops found a container of hot coffee. Victory it was, but seldom has a victory been acknowledged with such...
...military organizations-garrison troops, artillery, anti-aircraft and other defenses-have been removed...
...colored bags of dusty, mustard-colored flesh ballooning n the humid sunlight, attracting only flies and burial squads. Soon to be souvenirs were isolated Jap units which had taken refuge in the slimy shadow of nearby man grove swamps. A few of the estimated 5,000 of the original garrison had possibly escaped, by barge or destroyer, in the artillery-haunted nights preceding Mun-da's fall...
...craggy hills of Crete this week there was fighting between German and Italian garrison troops. Warned by a special BBC broadcast that their hour had not yet come, Crete's guerrillas stayed out of the fight. But how they have prepared for their hour is reported in this dispatch from Cairo by TIME Correspondent Harry Zinder...