Word: rearguard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fluid, disordered German retreat up Italy's boot suddenly hardened. Five new divisions, one each from Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, the Balkans and North Italy had joined the rearguard defense...
...Coudenhove-Kalergi spent his time traveling about Europe organizing Pan-European units. For a time things looked propitious. But the depression and the sudden rise of Hitlerian National Socialism in Germany wrote finis to the Count's hopes. Throughout the '30s the Pan-European Union fought a rearguard action, trying to rally good nationalists to a program that would result in an effective encirclement of Hitler...
...continental defense. An inner fortress, to be held as a last barrier around the Reich, would include northern Italy and Yugoslavia, Hungary, Rumania, and a Russian front running through eastern Poland. But, said these reports, the Germans would surrender lower Italy and the other outlands only after the fiercest rearguard fighting...
...rearguard of the Wehrmacht fought stubbornly and well, strongly entrenched with machine guns and 88-mm. guns, sowing its path of retreat with mines and demolition charges. But the rearguard could not hold; it could only delay-in the north, the center and the east-the steady pressure of the British and Americans toward Messina...
...Rearguard's End. The capture of Randazzo spelled the German rearguard's end. To north and east, along the coastal roads, they fought tenaciously against the U.S. and British forces knifing up the shorelines. But at week's end the remnants were fleeing. On the north coast a second amphibious flanking movement of the Americans cracked their line at Capo d'Orlando and opened up a downhill road to Messina. On the east shore the British pushed up past Riposto, past Taormina, to within artillery range of Italy itself. On neither front was any major contact...