Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major General John R. Hodge, commanding the XXIV Corps (7th and 96th Divisions), called the fighting the fastest in the Pacific war, observed that "the Japs will run if they have a place to run to ... they are running in all di rections." Jap pillboxes were flimsily constructed. When Lieut. General Shiro Ma-kino's 16th Division men counterattacked, they came not in overpowering thousands, but in driblets of 50 to 200 men who were easily mowed down by machine-gun fire...
Exploitation. General MacArthur and his Sixth Army commander, Lieut. General Walter Krueger, had chosen Leyte as their target because its capture would seal off Mindanao and the other southern and central Philippine Islands, furnish bases for U.S. planes to cut Japan's supply lines to the East Indies storehouses. Then they had picked for the main assault the spot on Leyte where their armor and fire power could be used most advantageously: the upper half of the eastern shore line which leads down into the fertile Leyte Valley...
...Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, required four months to reduce the fortress of 's Hertogenbosch. Last week Lieut. General Sir Miles C. Dempsey's Second British Army did it in three days...
British units in Lieut. General Henry Crerar's First Canadian Army crossed the estuary in assault boats and amphibious vehicles, made a pre-dawn landing on South Beveland, joined up with Canadians who had fought their way out along the isthmus. This week the attackers overran Goes, the peninsula's communications center. It only remained to press on to flooded Walcheren, blast the Nazis out of Flushing...
Eight weeks ago Bulgaria bowed to the Red Army after 99 hours of war. In Moscow last week, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Petko Stainov signed an armistice with Russia, Britain, the U.S. The Allied commission was headed by Marshal Fedor I. Tolbukhin, who signed for Russia. Lieut. General J. A. H. Gammell signed for the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean. In Moscow Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin had agreed on the joint signature. This was the first down dividend on the new Anglo-Russian good will. But Bulgaria was to remain under the Soviet High Command for military purposes...