Word: garrisoning
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...fanatical Nazi commander, Major von Lambert. In the streets he had hanged officers who sought to surrender (see cut). He had organized and armed old men, women & children. Young girls hurled grenades from roofs. Wounded soldiers from five military hospitals joined the battle. The major's garrison had to be rooted out of practice pillboxes and bunkers which had been set up in an officer-training camp...
...this invasion-the period when the first troops were coming ashore-was gone. Perhaps counting too much on a three or four months' delay between the end of the Iwo Jima fighting and the start of the next U.S. operation, the Japs had delayed reinforcing Okinawa's garrison. Certainly the Japanese commander had pulled a major blunder; he had prepared for attack from the east and south, found himself fighting an attack from the west...
...Mutinies had occurred in the Baltic Fleet, and in many garrison cities...
...advance continued, Kawacuchi, a corpsman in a division hospital, made daily entries in his diary. He recorded, as well as it has been done anywhere, the strange mixture of animal courage and fatalism which motivates the U.S. enemy in the Pacific. This week, as a still greater Jap garrison on Okinawa felt the weight of U.S. arms, the Office of Censorship released Kawacuchi's diary [which had been found by a U.S. Naval officer]. Excerpts...
...lightning lunges U.S. troops invaded Cebu and Negros, the last of the larger Philippine islands. Liberation was proceeding apace. But on Luzon, where a sizable Japanese garrison was dug in. General MacArthur's men were fighting out a slow, bitter, bloody campaign...