Word: remnant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken an adamant stand against Russia, have made their will prevail. All Poles have long memories of Poland's repression at foreign hands-Russian as well as Prussian and Austrian. But the Kremlin's long memory has not forgotten that General Sosnkowski and his followers are the remnant of the old anti-Soviet regime. Once led by Marshal Pilsudski, they had dreamt of a Poland reaching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, had refused the Curzon Line in 1920 and snatched Vilna from Lithuania...
Just after noon on the second day a 20-year-old Austrian lieutenant stumbled from a cellar, surrendered the last organized remnant of Germans, exhausted, grimy, self-dubbed Kriegsverlängerer (war prolongers). From other, forgotten basements crawled pale, cadaverous, smelly, lice-ridden villagers. For weeks they had lived underground on popcorn, dried beans and water; now, amid the ruins of their homes, they cackled with hysterical relief...
...Japs' two Cape Gloucester air strips, 250 miles from Rabaul. With an accurate pre-invasion bombardment, with Sherman tanks, heavy artillery and pillbox-killing flamethrowers, they had overwhelmed the Jap defenses in four days and a few hours. Now they pressed into the jungle hinterland, where a Jap remnant had dragged artillery to shell the airfield. Enemy resistance was fanatic. At this spot alone, almost 1,000 Japs were slain, many in suicidal counterattacks. Reported Navy Secretary Frank Knox: for 117 marines killed at Cape Gloucester, 2,100 Japs had died...
...Blue Beach. The Japs may have thought this the main show. At close range they opened fire with machine guns and a light cannon and the U.S. loss was heavy. The fire destroyed eleven of 16 American boats, killed or wounded most of the 150 expendables, forced the remnant to turn back...
...lieutenant, a fighter pilot attached to the carrier Lexington, when the Japs came over on a February day in 1942. Alone against nine bombers roaring in for a kill, Butch O'Hare shot down five, damaged a sixth, scattered the remnant. The Navy and the U.S. were proud. Summoned from the South Pacific to Washington, Butch O'Hare got the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Roosevelt for "one of the most daring, if not the most daring, single action in the history of combat aviation." Of his exploit, Butch only said: "There wasn't much...