Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only method of achieving true peace is permanently to take away from the Germans the possibility of applying their intolerable plan of enslavement." First steps: build a "huge fleet" of bombers, train a guerrilla army like Britain's Home Guard (which André Chéradame credits with saving Britain from invasion); jail all Fifth Columnists...
...civilians trained with maximum democracy and efficiency. To this end the Home Guard Training School was organized, and Tom taught his men sniping, barricading, bombing with homemade bombs, garroting, how to decapitate an onrushing enemy motorcyclist with a piano wire, all the impromptu arts of guerrilla warfare...
...general, Winston Churchill drew a picture of Britain fighting what the New York Herald Tribune last week called a "guerrilla war of evasion, attrition, maneuver and retreat"-until such time as Britain's armament catches up with the Nazi striking power. He said...
...Yugoslav Army, though cut in places, was still in being. German claims that it was annihilated were not supported by German claims of prisoners: only 40,000. And so the Yugoslavs, in divided units operating as colossal guerrilla parties, using the French tactics of artillery preparation and assault which Dusan Simovitch learned at St. Cyr, the elite French war college, began to counterattack in exactly the opposite direction from their pre-battle expectation. Their major effort was southward, into the Serbian hills. They counterattacked near Kragujevac, General Simovitch's birthplace - traditional home of the Obrenovitch dynasty. Their strongest push...
...graves of men and women who died in the 1916-21 struggle, many an Irish soldier wore, and many an Irish civilian prized, the first medal that Eire has ever issued: for service in the 1916 Rising. A second medal was to go to veterans of the years of guerrilla war that followed-which the Irish call "The Trouble."* Of the 2,000-odd fighters in the Rising, many are dead, others have disappeared. Among the survivors to whom the medal went were Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, three of his Ministers, Opposition Leader William T. Cosgrave, Minister...