Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Retreat. On all these fronts the German retreat has been both costly and hurried, but not disorganized. Everywhere the Nazis found time to destroy the towns they abandoned; nowhere did they lose many prisoners...
...hills were peopled by sailors who had fought at Odessa and Sevastopol, and were now determined to regain the city below them. Day after day, German shells and bombs ploughed the hills, killed men, maimed their guns. But the sailors did not retreat, and their guns let no German ship enter the bay, no train reach the station. For 13 months the sailors stayed in the hills, and each day the rows of German crosses in the city parks grew longer...
...tremendous was the momentum of the Red drive that at any moment the retreat could become a rout. By all rules of war and logic the Red Army needed time to rest, replenish supplies, restore communications. But it might well have reserves of hidden strength enabling it to press its attack without a respite...
...Finland's Helsingin Sanomat cried anxiously: "The Eastern front is moving an enormous step closer toward Europe's frontiers." It was with the same thought that the Wehrmacht's mouthpiece, Captain Ludwig Sertorius, admitted somberly last week: "It is not yet clear where and when the retreat will halt...
...Force and the R.A.F in India intensified their harassment of the Burma coast, of Jap shipping around Rangoon, of Jap supply routes near Mandalay and along the Irrawaddy River. Allied-trained and equipped Chinese troops, based in India, skirmished with Jap troops along the North Burma frontier, forced their retreat and destroyed their lines of communication. Reports came of British submarine operations as far south as the Strait of Malacca, between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula...