Word: last-ditch
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...Japanese plan. Its execution would not be so simple. The Dutch had a mobile Army of perhaps 50,000 well-armed white and brown troops, 50,-ooo not so well armed. "Some thousands" of Australian, British and U.S. soldiers were on the island, and probably were held for last-ditch shock attack. Short of artillery, short even of ammunition for the various calibers of Dutch, U.S., British, Swedish, German and Italian rifles, pistols and machine guns, the Dutch ordnance men had made much out of little. They juggled rifle parts to fit their ammunition supply. For armored cars, they walled...
Scornfully, he rejected suggestions that this country pull back its warships, planes and merchantships into home waters and concentrate solely on a last-ditch of the United States. He said this is "foolish" and a "fatuous policy...
...Last week the only U.S. citizen known to have escaped from fallen Hong Kong told how a hell-for-leather, 6 ft.-2 in. San Francisco chiropractor played hob with Japanese nerves in a last-ditch fight to postpone the Crown Colony's collapse, leaving little or nothing to nature...
These deeds and the others unreported, shone like bright stars against the black shadow of ultimate defeat that still hung over MacArthur's gallant army. Had it not been for the debacle at Pearl Harbor he might by now have been relieved. Now it was a last-ditch fight...
...Retreat. Manila was an unequivocal liability. It lies in flat land with its back to the bay. It could be only a trap-a soft spot for a wedge to be driven home by the Jap to split the Army. As he had long planned to do in a last-ditch fight, General MacArthur abandoned Manila, already declared an open city, already heavily bombed...