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...Germany's defenses in southeastern Europe will be disrupted by the loss of the Italian Army. Italian troops, weak in battle, nevertheless do garrison duty in guerrilla-torn Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete. Algiers heard that Marshal Badoglio had ordered the withdrawal of 22 divisions from garrison duty. If this was true, the Germans will have to garrison these countries, or else abandon them. The German chances of holding the Balkans against their own heartened rebels, much less against invasion, will be lessened. Said A.P. Correspondent Wesley Gallagher, recently returned from Allied Headquarters in Algiers: "If Italy sues for peace...
...Orel from three directions, liberating no towns and villages. They routed five German divisions; five others "suffered a heavy defeat." By last week's end, twelve days after the counterattack began, they had pressed on past Orel, to within 35 miles of Bryansk. German communications with the Orel garrison were being pinched off (see map). For the first time in Russia, where the main forces of Germany were still engaged, the Red Army had the summer initiative. A test was under way, a victory was in sight which could mean more to the Allied cause than last week...
...hill behind deep and well-gunned passes, might require a month of siege. It fell in a matter of hours to a Ranger detachment of 50 officers and men. After a tense, hard march in the night, Privates John C. See and John Constantine crept within earshot of the garrison, lolling and chatting beside their guns and trucks at the top of a high pass. Constantine, one of the many Italian-speaking soldiers in the Seventh Army, called upon them to surrender. The few German officers with them tried to make the Italians fight. After a few halfhearted shots...
...revolt of Martinique's tiny army garrison, capping the U.S. blockade, forced Admiral Robert to capitulate, swung the island into the United Nations camp. For three stubborn years goateed Georges Robert had ruled as a sybaritic despot. He had screamed at his underlings, plucked roses in his garden, aired his Anglophobia, played the island's strategic position, idle warships and hoarded gold against U.S. pressure. Now he refused utterly to deal with the Committee of Liberation. Said Henri Hoppenot: the Admiral was in a "tragic frame of mind . . . suffering from a Messianic complex and retaining a fanatic loyalty...
...Owchihkow the Japanese garrison was entrenched behind five concentric rings of pillboxes. Last week the Chinese decided to drive the enemy from these last strongholds. But instead of columns of Japanese infantry moving along unprotected footpaths amidst rice paddies, they faced the superiority of Japanese weapons. The Chinese infantry filtered in through the pillboxes to Owchihkow and fought in the city's streets. But Japanese artillery based on an island in the river pounded them brutally, while fresh Japanese reinforcements made way to aid the garrison. At week's end the Japanese artillery and pillboxes dominated the action...