Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opening with the warning that today the war is far from won, he asserted that Britain and America will have to take the war more seriously. "The strain on the Russian line is tremendous; the need for a second front is daily growing more acute. To date, the guerrilla armies of Jugoslavia are doing more to divert the military strength of the Axis than the United States and Britain...
Fighting Jugoslav guerrilla bands have driven Italian occupation forces from most of the former Jugoslavian province of Bosnia and sabotage and anti-Axis activity continues to plague the Axis in other portions of occupied Europe, London reports said Tuesday...
China. The Jap grew daily more fierce in the occupied provinces of China. Bloodcurdling stories of mass massacres seeped out of newly occupied Chekiang Province. In the northern Hopei-Shantung-Shansi triangle the Japs tried a scorched-earth policy of burning out villages and frightening civilians from whom guerrilla bands receive food and shelter. But in Shanghai the Japanese had been busy trying to make the Chinese like their puppet government...
...raids into Italy, hitting in the vicinity of Fiume and Trieste, were part of guerrilla operations that constantly harass Axis communication and supply lines, keep the Italians in jittery jeopardy. Russian reports said that several railway stations had been captured by General Mihailovich's Yugoslavs from German-Italian forces; they claimed that 39 locomotives and quantities of rolling stock had been destroyed...
...Fields. Expecting increased crops from the Balkans, the Germans learned that peasant stubbornness and guerrilla warfare had cut production by at least one-third. Without fertilizer or tools, with 1,500,000 soldiers still interned in Germany, agricultural France was lying fallow. The winter frost, the scorched-earth policy and lack of tractors had withered the lush wheat crop in the Ukraine...