Word: mop-up
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Suddenly the fight went out of the Nazi armies in Italy. Their lines had collapsed. Allied armor, spearing through masses of bewildered Germans, spread out over northern Italy, reached toward the Swiss border near Como, cut retreat lines and started the final mop...
...continuing mop-up of enemy remnants in the Marianas, a Japanese was captured, so badly wounded that he could not survive without a blood transfusion. A company commander, who knew that his men had been so sickened by Jap tactics that they believed the only good Jap was a dead Jap, made the gesture of asking for volunteers. Every man in the company offered to give blood...
Chickering saw at first hand the savage Bougainville campaign and the terror of jungle war. Then he shifted to the Central Pacific, where he went ashore at Kwajalein and watched the mop-up operations. He saw death all around...
...Mop-Up. Far behind the Hungarian front line, Yugoslavia and Greece were mere mop-up operations. Belgrade, the "white city," wise in the ways of war, was again a battlefield. Russians and Yugoslav Partisans were fighting in its streets, where Germans had erected pillboxes, antitank obstacles and gun emplacements. To the south, the railroad-junction city of Nish was captured by Partisans and Bulgarians...
...other units-perhaps for most- it was a mop-up. TIME Correspondent Will Lang, accompanying casehardened veterans of a division which had fought through Sicily and Italy, cabled that its soldiers found the southern France campaign "the damndest one ever: all marching and little fighting, through some of the prettiest mountain country most G.I.s had ever seen, chasing Germans through lovely villages unscarred...