Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British forces were small. They were a section of the newly formed Land Forces of the Adriatic under General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson's Mediterranean command; included paratroopers, commandos, infantrymen, engineers and an R.A.F. regiment. The two Greek guerrilla forces -E.D.E.S. and E.L.A.S. -had promised cooperation. Local commander was the 26-year-old Earl Jellicoe, son of the British commander at Jutland in World War I. Young Jellicoe went in as a major, was promoted to a lieutenant colonel four days later...
...GUERRILLA-Lord Dunsany-Bobbs-Merrill...
...Greek Government in Exile and Allied Headquarters in Rome announced that Greek guerrilla factions had agreed to act together under Allied command in the fight against the Germans. Lieut. General Ronald MacKenzie Scobie, former British commander at Tobruk and Malta, was named head man for Allied operations in Greece. This week British Commandos were reported on three Greek islands...
Even in the main corridor, from Yochow and Hankow, through Changsha and Hengyang, down which the enemy was funneling his attack groups and supplies, he was subject to harassment by Chinese guerrilla bands. But these attacks were pinpricks against the flank of an armored monster...
...history after a cryptic lifetime in the political underground: Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito. Tossed up suddenly in the slipstream of military and political movements, he was as little familiar to most of the western world as the lands he defended. But his two years of constant guerrilla warfare with the Germans had made one fact clear: in an area of decision, he was a man of decision...