Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French Foreign Legionnaires and native troops had permitted themselves to be surrounded by the Japanese, who then attacked from all sides. One thousand were killed or wounded, 2,000, including a brigadier general, were taken prisoner and 3,000 escaped by fleeing unarmed into the jungle. Pro-Japanese guerrilla bands were reported to have recaptured 30 Frenchmen and killed them slowly. "The Japanese herded us together like cattle," reported an escaped Legionnaire. "Some had cover but most of us sprawled or sat for four days in the open under a hellish sun." The Japanese slapped white captives to prove...
...Libyan naval base of Tobruch, where Graziani's main supplies were concentrated, the British claimed their bombers smashed barracks, wharves and massed trucks. British planes cracked at Sálum, others attacked Sidi Barráni. On the alert for planes, forced to keep up a desert "guerrilla-artillery" battle, Sidi Barráni also awoke last week to find the British Fleet off shore. As the sun nosed over the desert mesas, warships nosed out of a shroud of morning haze. A moment later their guns belched salvos pointblank into the heart of the city. Observers...
...Lawrence in Arabia and Allenby in Palestine was the British Commander, Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, 57, who knows the Middle East like the knuckles on his own hand. He sent his men to work on the un-camouflaged Italian camps with a little of everything, including mobile "guerrilla artillery." British warships from Alexandria shelled the coastal road by which the Italians advanced...
...described as "a hostile attitude." The Government paid little attention at first, but two days later admitted that a large Federal force under General Antonio Guerrero had taken the field against the rebels. So rugged is the State of Chihuahua that a few well-armed men can carry on guerrilla warfare against much larger numbers, but taking the country is another matter. General Guerrero put up a good show of confidence by ordering the guerrillas to surrender within 48 hours or "be annihilated...
...shunted to new homes. They and their chickens and ducks overflowed Rumanian railway cars so tightly jammed that most of the human and animal freight got in & out of windows instead of doors. Small bands of Rumanian soldiers and petty officers announced they would resist the Hungarians by waging guerrilla warfare in the Carpathians, but none of these bands caused the occupying Hungarian forces much trouble...