Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years-belated shock came in a joint Army-Navy release, based on factual, eyewitness, non-hearsay accounts from Lieut. Colonel William E. Dyess and two others who escaped from Jap imprisonment and torture last April. From their reports, the Army & Navy concluded that of the 22,300 Americans taken captive on Bataan and Corregidor, at least 7,700 had been tortured, starved or shot to death in the first year of imprisonment. The number of dead among the 28,000 Filipino captives was incalculable...
Released from prison at World War II's outbreak, he was captured by the Germans in June 1940, was at once repatriated. Then he became active in Pétain's Legion of War Veterans, organized a special shock corps called SOL (Service d'Ordre de la Légion...
Pierre Laval sensed that brutal, stocky Joseph Darnand was seeking notoriety and power, thought he could use such a man. Laval sent Darnand to Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, who received him magnificently. Since then, Darnand has nurtured his shock troopers, recently showed off their skill in thuggery to a group of Nazi experts visiting Vichy...
Arms and the Purge. Frenchmen in Algiers pressed another case: the need of their comrades inside France for arms. The resistance movement in the homeland, they claimed, should be recognized as the vanguard of Allied invasion. In the ranks of 40,000 shock troops actively harrying the Germans, there was not more than one weapon for every 20 men. "The underground movement," said one resistance delegate, "is dying from exhaustion...
Since the summer of 1941 hardy British countrymen, inured to many a shock of World War II, have been startled out of their wits on various occasions by the swift and noisy visitations of a friendly but seemingly insane aircraft...