Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept air patrols along the principal German supply routes, harried the Junkers with fighters and Stormovik assault planes, sought out and incessantly bombed the fields where the German transports landed. Where the German routes crossed Red Army territory, the Russians lined the way with hidden ack-ack batteries. Sometimes guerrilla ack-ack units planted batteries behind the German lines. German pilots flew through snowstorms to outwit the Russian hunters. The Luftwaffe constantly changed its routes, began to dispatch transports singly or in small groups rather than in large formations...
...most gallant guerrilla stories of the war was brought out of Timor last week by Australian Correspondent Bill Marien...
...confusion of defeat after the Nazis seized their country, Yugoslav soldiers made their way to their ancient refuge, the hills. There Mihailovich, the ranking officer, assumed command of guerrilla fighting. His valor and the skill of his soldiers captured the world's headlines. To much of the outside world, Mihailovich became a symbol of freedom.*But to many Yugoslav patriots, intellectuals and peasants, he became a symbol of the discredited Belgrade government clique and the Kara George dynasty which first gave Yugoslavia dictatorial King Alexander, then, after his assassination, a Fascist-minded set of regents while King Peter...
...fame reached the Argentine hinterland, where last week bands of gypsies, having elected Mihailovich honorary chieftain, were raiding cattle ranches and scrupulously setting aside their loot in an aid-to-Mihailovich fund. †"Partisans" was originally an American word for guerrilla bands in the Colonial wars between the British and French. Later it was applied to such groups as "The Green Mountain Boys" in the Revolution and to Cantrell's Guerrillas in the Civil War. Partisans were active in the Napoleonic wars and the Russian Revolution. The name now designates Communist-led and other leftist guerrillas in Europe...
...amputated many of China's health facilities. Drugs have to be imported by plane and the cargo space allotted to them is only 18 tons a month. Even these drugs are poorly distributed because of hoarding, lack of internal transportation and the complete isolation of guerrilla areas from medical help. A wounded Chinese must usually rely on stoicism rather than morphine...