Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first of those tasks, it was well known, would be to revitalize his own Party, weeding out the old troops and putting them on garrison duty. The second would be to train the new younger troops for the G.O.P.'s great assault on Franklin Roosevelt's political fortress...
Leaflets had warned the battered Cherbourg garrison to surrender or die. They were ignored: Nazi officers had orders to shoot, any man who attempted to retreat or give up. The attack was run off in the classic form that an army can achieve when it has overwhelming air power, plenty of good artillery, plenty of well-trained, hard-fighting infantrymen...
...baleful days the Jap Navy: ¶ Lost 30 ships sunk, plus two probably sunk. Fifty-one more were damaged. ¶ Lost 13 landing barges, complete with packed crews, most of them on the way to reinforce the garrison at Saipan. ¶ Lost 757 aircraft destroyed by U.S. aircraft...
Chief Marshal of the Class of 1919, as well as Chief Marshal of Commencement is Lloyd K. Garrison. Dean of the Law School of the University of Wisconsin and General Counsel for the War Labor Board...
...Adriatic, Allied and Partisan forces raided the Yugoslav island of Brac, wiping out a German garrison...