Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, a column of crack French troops was on its way to protect the withdrawal from Caobang. The Caobang garrison had already pulled out and was on its way south through the jungle. The two French columns met on Route Coloniale No. 4 between Dongkhe and Thatkhe. Numbering together more than 3,000 men, they marched southward for two days. Then, in a narrow valley, a force of 20,000 Viet Minh soldiers descended on them. Only about 700 Legionnaires managed to escape the ambuscade. They told of a bloody battle in which over 1,000 were killed & wounded, another...
Cotten and his men decide to desert and go to Texas and the Confederacy, but they have a change of heart when the Kiowas, infuriated because Chandler has executed their chief's son, storm the fort. With the garrison about to fall, the Indians indicate that they will settle for Chandler. He marches alone into their encampment to what-judging from his screams-must be a gaudy death...
...Moonlight, by W. Stanley Moss. How a handful of British agents kidnaped a German general under the eyes of his garrison in Crete; a high-spirited account of one of the boldest stunts of the war, by one of the Britons who brought it off (TIME, Sept...
Landing Party. On landing day last week, in the dawn's early light, MacArthur picked his way through a confusion of men in helmets and life jackets, climbed onto the admiral's bridge chair. He wore his old braided, sweat-stained garrison...
...Moonlight, by W. Stanley Moss. How a handful of British agents kidnaped a German general under the eyes of his garrison in Crete; a high-spirited account of one of the boldest stunts of the war, by one of the Britons who brought it off (TIME, Sept...