Word: remnant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Decimated and divided between Baltic and Norwegian waters, the remnant of the German Navy now has only a limited nuisance value...
...they were growing. They were led by Italian Army officers, stiffened by escaped British prisoners of war, aided by the countryside's peasantry. They controlled villages ungarrisoned by the enemy. They sabotaged rail and road communications vital to German transport. Against them the Nazis rallied the bedraggled remnant of Benito Mussolini's blackshirts, decreed the death penalty. In Italy, too, the Germans were fighting a two-front...
...month after the Allied landings, the Italians had quit fighting in Sicily, the Germans faced another Cap Bon, though with some hope of evacuating a remnant. In Sicily, the Axis had lost 125,000 men captured, uncounted thousands dead and wounded, uncounted hundreds of planes, tanks, trucks and guns. They had won a month's time to bolster Festung Europa; but they had surely hoped for more. The Allies had practiced amphibious invasion on a grand scale, had sealed their control of the Mediterranean. Now they stood a step from the European main...
...island rampart of the Balkans in twelve nightmarish days of 1941. Now the Greeks and British pounded the power station at Malemi, where the Nazi padded paratroopers had dropped two years ago. They ripped the radio post at Selino Kastelli, not far from the beach where a German seaborne remnant came through British naval guns. They strafed the roads behind Candia, where exhausted Allied foot soldiers had retreated...
...battleship Oklahoma, once virtually upside down, is within ten degrees of upside up, but she still squats in the harbor mud. The battleship Arizona went under on an even keel, but her bow is still out of sight, the remnant of her stern only a bit above water. The target ship Utah is still turtle-turned, her big broad bottom hot and bare beneath the sun. Within the three hulks rest the skeletons...