Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Scorched Airfields. In skillfully coordinated pincers drives the Japanese sent a powerful column from Canton up the West River. With their garrison divisions leavened by 20,000 freshly landed reinforcements, the Japs made good time, taking Wuchow and pressing on to Tan-chuk, most important of the Fourteenth Air Force bases southeast of the Heng-yang-Nanning line. Like the great U.S. base at Kweilin, built by the hand labor of thousands of Chinese, Tanchuk was scorched by Chennault's airmen before they left...
...machine-gun and mortar fire. The division's 1st Regiment soon suffered 60% casualties. After ten days the marines had occupied five-sixths of the 2-by-6-mile island. Interim score: 7,313 Jap dead. Still to go: about 3,200 (estimated strength of the original garrison was upped from...