Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farewell, Fortress. The Swiss weekly Weltwoche, known for its authentic military information, said last week that the German idea of Fortress Europe was already dead. According to Weltwoche, even before Mussolini quit, the Germans had abandoned any hope of holding all the shores and lands of Axis Europe. Instead, they planned to turn Norway, Denmark and Belgium in the north, France in the west, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria and Crete in the south into rear-guard battlefields. As in Sicily, limited German forces would fight for those lands-not to hold them indefinitely, but to make invasion as slow...
...coastal route to Messina and Italy. In twelve days the Seventh Army had fought for its beachheads in southwestern Sicily, fought inland past Barrafranca (see p. 34}, fought for Caltanissetta and (with the Canadians) for Enna in central Sicily. After that, the Italian Army in western Sicily simply quit fighting. Two divisions, the 206th Coastal and 4th Livorno, had shown some spirit. Others, including the 26th and the 28th Infantry Divisions, fought little or not at all. Sicilian militia and thousands of regular soldiers quit the ranks, melted back into their fields and their towns. The British took General...
This, of course, brings up the question of how I'm able to dash off a column for the A-L boys. Frankly, it's a knack multiple endeavor is relatively easy for an old newspaperman (I quit the racket in 1939, when the bottom fell out of the price of old newspapers). The facility remains: I can fall out on the double for reveille in my bare feet, putting on my GI shoes as I run down the stairs. I lace 'em up, too--living as I do on the fourth floor, I have plenty of time...
...months U.S. railroads have begged civilians not to travel. Last week the Southern Pacific quit begging, got tough...
...Joined with Prime Minister Churchill in delivering a quit-or-die ultimatum to the Italians...