Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What I cannot understand is why you, with information at your disposal, failed to advise your readers of the desperate plight of our garrison stationed in Manila. If the powers at Washington did not see fit to send them reinforcements, we, the citizens of these United States, should have been advised the reason why. I cannot give utterance to my feelings of shame and degradation in realizing that we did so little to save these desperate and brave...
German troops, poised along the Atlantic Wall, got a peremptory order to kill their 300,000 tame rabbits, bred during the past year as an escape from boredom and garrison rations. Reason for the slaughter: invasion bombs and shells might turn the cottontails loose, set them to setting off the artfully contrived mine fields and booby traps designed for Allied soldiers...
...might have been that the Japs at Hollandia were only supply troops (i.e., scrubs of the Japanese Army) and not the fighting garrison General MacArthur expected to find. It was too early to generalize. But obviously not all Japs yearned to die with their colonel...
These are new summer uniforms for the women's services. For dress, Marine Women's Reserve Officers (left) will wear a neat white Palm Beach suit. Enlisted WACs (center) will wear a khaki tropical outfit similar to their officers'. An innovation: the garrison cap by Hatter Knox. WAVES and Spars (right) will wear slate-grey seersucker, instead of last year's blue cotton gabardine, which ran when washed. A feature: the fitted jacket with four pockets, one real, three false...
...Sevastopol the Red meat grinder continued to chop up the remnants of the Crimean garrison. At sea, Vice Admiral F. S. Oktyabrsky's fleet waited for and attacked Axis ships as they tried to slip out for a desperate dash to Rumania, (last week's toll: 18 large vessels...