Word: 1st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Death was as common as head colds." These words of Marine Captain Hunt, who now writes for FORTUNE, are the essence of his brief, sharp account of the storming of the Pacific island of Peleliu by the U.S. 1st Marine Division. Captain Hunt and his company of 235 men were landed on Peleliu one dawn; forty-eight hours later, only 78 of them were alive. Most of an entire platoon of his, racing to the assault, had suddenly felt the ground collapse under them, and had found themselves wallowing at the bottom of a mammoth tank-trap, while Jap machine...
...mistress. Nizaemon's adoring public could bear up under that. But when the Great Lover married his hussy and began uxoriously washing diapers and doing kitchen chores to please her, his prestige began to wane. Only his relatives and most ardent disciples, paying their ritual calls on the 1st and 15th of each month, remained faithful...
...There will be another crisis in the glorious military history of the Antilles Department when the General and his aides discover that the 31st of January and the 1st of February, both odd days, come consecutively...
FRANK R. BAKER 1st Lieutenant, A.U.S. New Delhi, India...
Wounded-California's 1936 All-America center, 1st Lieut. Bob Herwig*; Iowa's 1940 captain and tackle, Major Rade ("Mike") Enich; the New York (Pro) Giants' and ex-Brown University fullback, Lieut. John McLaughry...