Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three American correspondents aboard MacArthur's own flagship when he returned to Luzon. And ever since Bill Chickering was killed by enemy action in Lingayen Gulf, he has been doing double duty for LIFE and TIME in reporting MacArthur's triumphs at the scene of his 1941 retreat...
Unknown Ingredient. But what of the top Nazis who cannot hide? With a compact army of young SS and Hitler Youth fanatics, they will retreat, behind a loyal rearguard cover of Volksgrenadiere and Volksstürmer, to the Alpine massif which reaches from southern Bavaria across western Austria to northern Italy. There immense stores of food and munitions are being laid down in prepared fortifications. If the retreat is a success, such an army might hold out for years...
...Coconuts emptied of milk and filled with explosive, which the Japs sowed along the route of their retreat in Burma. At first overlooked by detector squads, the coconuts blew the legs off infantrymen, the wheels off vehicles. Allied troops captured a Jap ammunition dump stored with thousands of them...
...canvas is broad, shifting from Chopin's native Poland to Paris or to George Sand's island retreat at Minorca, and finally to the various capitals of Europe, when the fever-racked young composer breaks the hypnotic spell cast over him by the iron-willed, amorous Sand and sets out on a suicidal concert tour to raise money to help his people in an uprising against the Czar. Paraded across the background in a rather ludicrous attempt at historical realism are such figures as De Musset, Balzac, Pagnanini, and Franz Liszt...
General Joseph W. Stilwell, U.S. hero of the retreat from Burma and sometime chief of staff to Chiang Kaishek, got a new job last week after nearly three months of idleness. Uncle Joe was made chief of the Army Ground Forces...