Word: platoonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first anniversary of Philippine independence, the citizens of Calapan, capital of Mindoro province, awoke to find their town invaded and occupied by local revolutionists. Led by Nestor Romero, a 31-year-old Bataan veteran, 31 convicts broke out of the provincial stockade, disarmed their guards and a platoon of sleeping military police, and took over the town. They captured the mayor, the governor of the province, and Paul Leuterio, majority leader of the Philippine House of Representatives. After a 15-hour reign of terror, MP reinforcements routed the rebels, killed Romero...
...Allen Matthews was the oldest man in his Marine company, and known to the rest as "Pop." By the twelfth day of the battle for Iwo Jima, only three men were left of his 32-man platoon. Then, from Iwo's craggy, ridge-locked plateau came the whee-ee-eet-whee-ee-eet of the moaning Minnies.* There was a moment of blackness, a scream, and then silence...
With only four snow-eating machines at its disposal, the high command of the Cambridge Street Department attempts to clear main thoroughfares and streets serving hospitals and churches once a snowfall has stopped. Thus, by the time the snow platoon reaches an unimportant lane off the beaten path--Holyoke Street, for example--the unpleasant melange of snow, slush, and mud has frozen over with two-foot sink holes and ridges at appropriate intervals. It is now too late. A regiment of men would be needed to chop out the ice by hand, and more scientific means prove futile. Salt removes...
...Thessaly, TIME Correspondent Robert Low reported, "Communists staged their biggest operation to date. Four bands, each about 500 strong and well equipped, converged from four widely separated points in the mountains down into the town of Deskate, overran a company of Greek Army soldiers and a platoon of gendarmerie, inflicting heavy casualties, and finally captured the town. It took the Army, with all the force it could muster, three days to recapture the town, and even then they failed to encircle the bands, which retired, followed by 160 inhabitants of the town. They took with them a large stock...
Almost. Millar, an armored division platoon leader, was captured in Libya in the winter of 1941-42. For the next 20 months he was a P.W. in Italy and in Germany. Under the terms of the Geneva Convention, officer P.W.s may not be forced to work. Both in World War I and in World War II, hundreds of them worked like mad-digging hidden tunnels, forging counterfeit papers, tailoring civilian-like disguises, anything that might eventually help them escape...