Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday, Dec. 10, the day originally set for all Greek guerrillas to surrender their arms, the fighting mounted to a furious climax. All day, heavy, devastating shelling from British 25-pounders and guerrilla 75-mm. guns crisscrossed between British headquarters at the eastern foot of the Acropolis and the ELAS citadels in the Stadium area, in the park east of the Arch of Hadrian and the Temple of Zeus. Both sides were still trying hard not to damage monuments that had survived 2,000 years of human havoc. As the eighth bloody day ended, ELAS still held the port...
...month of fighting, artillery units hurled $156 million worth of shells at the Germans. At Aachen, in two weeks of bombardment, 300,000 rounds of 105-mm. shells were expended...
...support. That was unfortunate, for neither the night air attack nor the big naval guns had knocked out the Germans. They waited until the oncoming swarms of invasion craft were 1,000 yards offshore, then opened with at least nine guns ranging in size from 88s to 290-mm. monsters...
First Lieut. Martin Lederhandler, a former Associated Press photographer, had the most vexing experience. On D-day he entrusted a carrier pigeon with some 35-mm. negatives, then watched the bemused bird head off for the enemy lines. Weeks later he saw reproductions of his pictures on the front page of a German army newspaper found in Cherbourg. Under them was the legend: "Photos by 1st Lieut. Martin Lederhandler, U.S. Army Signal Corps...
Allen, 48, new SHAEF public-relations director nicknamed for his 105-mm. larynx and famed for his bravery under fire. Almost immediately, the 500-odd grumbling Allied newsmen, based in the disheveled Hotel Scribe, saw things change for the better. By last week the milling throng was gone from the Scribe lobby ; censors, P.R.O.s, wireless men were settled and working in designated rooms; correspondents were eating regularly. Most heartening change of all, Press Wireless stepped up its power, and copy dispatched from Paris reached a total of over 1,000,000 words...