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At last it was clear that the Greek government army meant business. Heartened by U.S. aid and military advice, spurred by U.S. demands to get going, the government had sent three divisions—30,000 troops—after 4,000 guerrillas holed up in the pineclad mountains of south central Greece. Said Lieut. General Stylianos Kitrilakis, deputy chief of staff: "We have flushed the hares. Now we must hunt them down and kill them."
The fighting area was a rough quadrangle between the Lamia-Karpenissi highway and the Gulf of Corinth. It straddled the government supply route from Athens to the north, which has suffered repeatedly...
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