Word: 7th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mighty 7th" War Loan drive, with the highest goal yet for sales to individuals, got off to a better start than any drive so far. In the first week 23% of the "little man's" $7 billion quota was subscribed. The rest would come harder -when enthusiasm had cooled...
With the dawn came still heavier fighting. On the east end of the battle line Jap infantrymen came out of their foxholes to attack the 7th and 77th Division fronts. For the first time on Okinawa they brought tanks into action. The Japs poured through 1,500 yards at one place before they were wiped out. Through the morning furious fighting raged until the assault subsided and the Americans struck back over the bodies of 3,000 Japs...
...keeping with Chinese medical ethics (as written by Sun Ssu-miao in the 7th Century A.D.), which are much like those outlined in the Western world's Hippocratic oath, Dr. Chang treats poor patients as carefully as the rich, charges them nothing. His middle-class patients pay about $100,000 Chinese ($200 American) a day. His upper-crust patients pay in largesse of the realm-fine furs and such succulent delicacies as sharks' fins and bears' paws...
...96th Division, in the center of the line, fought its way atop and over "Skyline Ridge" dominating the field. The 7th Division, on the left, pressed toward the Yonabaru airstrip...
...artillery died down, came Major General John R. Hodge's XXIV Corps. On the right the 27th Division reached for the Machinate air strip. In the center the 96th Division moved into the heart of the ridge defenses toward Shuri and its moated fortifications. On the left the 7th Division drove along the east coast toward the Yonabaru air strip...