Word: 36th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among U.S. divisions last week to be on the front: the 3rd, a Regular Army outfit heavily sprinkled with West Coast soldiers, which spearheaded the first Anzio beach attack; the 36th, a National Guard outfit from Texas, which forced the bloody crossing of the Rapido; the bloody crossing of the Rapido; the 34th, Iowa and Minnesota National Guard, which battled its way to a footbold in Cassino...
About 1,400 San Antonians have been killed, wounded or are missing. Nearly half these were Latin Americans, chiefly Mexicans, who have proved among the best of U.S. combat troops. Six San Antonians were killed at Pearl Harbor, but Salerno was costliest. There the 36th (Texas) Division, including 1,000 San Antonians, spearheaded the beach attack...
Captain Waskow was a company commander in the 36th Division. He had been in this company since long before he left the States. He was very young, only in his middle 20s, but he carried in him a sincerity and gentleness that made people want to be guided...
...Miami's 36th Street airport, a K.L.M. Lockheed Super-Electra landed ten passengers, 25,000 first-flight "covers" for stamp collectors, eight hours and 44 minutes after taking off from Curacao. It was the first scheduled Caribbean-U.S. flight ever made by a commercial plane that did not belong to Pan American Airways...
Into Hollywood's small, grey-stuccoed Church of St. Mary of the Angels went many a cinema star last Sunday to honor one of Hollywood's outstanding characters. The Rev. Neal Dodd sang High Mass, marking the 36th anniversary of his ordination in the Episcopal Church's priesthood. For a quarter of a century nervous, bespectacled, balding Father Dodd, 64, has been rector of the parish (224 communicants). He is also an actor, as well as technical adviser and father confessor to the film industry...