Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movements of Allied troops sent to dislodge and cut off 1,000 more Germans entrenched on Rombak heights, southeast of the town. An Allied column for this purpose was landed at Fagenes, in Beisfjord to the south. Norwegians plodded eastward through the mountains from Gratangen, to head off German retreat through Björnfjell near the Swedish border, and preserve the ore railroad. The arrival at the border of 460 fugitive German "seamen" in civilian clothes, who said they were refugees from nine merchant ships sunk during the naval actions, betokened the plight of their soldier comrades under General Dietl...
What happened to 1,500 men of General Dietl's original landing force became known last week. Retreating Norwegian troops tempted them to pursuit up the road to Tromsö, then cut off their retreat at the town of Gratangen, which was set afire. The Nazis took shelter in farmhouses, Norse sharpshooters picking them off when they stuck their heads out. It was such a trap as the Finns sprang repeatedly on whole divisions of Russians, and it worked as perfectly. Hungry, half-frozen, before week's end 850 survivors at Gratangen surrendered...
...full retreat, the German High Command contradicted both Goebbels and D. N. B., claimed officially to have "destroyed" one heavy cruiser, two light cruisers, eight destroyers, ten submarines, one transport. But Grand Admiral Erich Raeder asserted that "German warship .losses as alleged by the Allies are not in accordance with the facts. The reported sinking or beaching of the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, as well as the cruiser Liitzow, is completely invented. The same holds good for the alleged sinking of the Lloyd express steamship Bremen." (The sinking of the Bremen and the pocket battleship Liitzow was never officially claimed...
...Europe's bloody wars, for every ten men slain by the enemy, pestilence has killed its thousands. In the Thirty Years' War, an estimated 8,000,000 Germans were wiped out by flea-borne bubonic plague and louse-borne typhus fever. On Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, typhus, dysentery and pneumonia killed 450,000 of the Grand Army...
...hundred yards up Memorial Drive, jammed in between a swank apartment house and the Boston Elevated stockyards, towers a neo-rom-anesque stucco structure, a bastard of medieval and modern simplicity. It is the retreat of the Cowley Fathers, black-robed brothers of the Order of St. John the Evangelist, who have come to seek heavenly peace on the fringe of the State's No. 2 industrial city. It is from here that the fathers set out on their nation-wide pilgrimages to preach the Episcopalian gospel; it is here that a good many world-weary sinners--ex-convicts, professors...