Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Phillips, TIME and LIFE had a firsthand news and picture story on Yugoslavia's beleagured-and hard to see -Marshal Tito in their Sept. 12 issues. Phillips has had the Marshal's confidence from the time he made a long, grueling march with a Yugoslav Partisan guerrilla column campaigning against the Nazis in 1944. Tito awarded him the Order of Merit. Later, when the Marshal was made "Hero of the Yugoslav People," Phillips was the only foreign guest among the 24 people at the ceremony. For his part, Phillips says he gave Tito the first...
...three-pronged attack, Greek government troops had shattered Communist forces in the Grammos region and had captured 8,000-ft. Mt. Grammos, long a formidable guerrilla stronghold. Government artillery commanded the whole northern ridge. All that remained, announced Athens, was to cut off the rebels' line of retreat to the Albanian border...
Burn the Papers. Like most Englishmen, Chapman had supposed that Singapore would never fall. He was sent behind the Jap lines in Malaya to organize and train native guerrilla fighters. When Singapore was taken, he and a few other Britons were trapped. Chapman was one of a handful that survived. He came through because he was tough and knew life in the wilderness (in 1937, he had become the first man to scale the 23,930-ft. peak of Chomolhari in the Himalayas, was already a famed Arctic explorer), because he had a sense of humor, and because he kept...
During his three years on the loose in the neutral jungle, Chapman trained Chinese Communist guerrillas, lived and fought with them. He admired the rank & file fighters although, in a sense, he was their prisoner. No guerrilla band could make a move, nor its leaders a decision, without an O.K. from party headquarters. It took months for Chapman to get a suggestion to the party bigwigs and their reply; a good deal of the time was spent in enforced and irritating idleness. He was always admired but always a little suspect, and could not move from band to band without...
...Pliatsiko [loot]," grinned grimy, battle-worn Private Pavlides of the Third Rimini Brigade. He was at Pyxos, the former Communist headquarters of "Free Greece," which the Greek national army captured last week from the retreating Red guerrillas. Pavlides and his comrades were joyfully poking around among the neat little pine-board chalets (which had housed Nico Zachariades, John Ioannides and other Communist guerrilla leaders), looking for equipment and stores left behind by the fleeing Reds. They found everything from Czech motorcycles and electric sewing machines to frilly underwear for the andartissa (female guerrillas...