Word: 96th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their foxholes, as a "thunderous preliminary bombardment by warships, planes and 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...
...Infantry Division units, weary after more than three weeks of steady fighting -Major General Frederick Irving's 24th still bore Leyte's brunt-pushed southward from Carigara Bay, but had advanced no more than two miles by week's end. From the south the 7th and 96th Divisions progressed just as slowly while the Japs prepared for the big battle...
Major General John R. Hodge, commanding the XXIV Corps (7th and 96th Divisions), called the fighting the fastest in the Pacific war, observed that "the Japs will run if they have a place to run to ... they are running in all di rections." Jap pillboxes were flimsily constructed. When Lieut. General Shiro Ma-kino's 16th Division men counterattacked, they came not in overpowering thousands, but in driblets of 50 to 200 men who were easily mowed down by machine-gun fire...
Slow Men. In Los Angeles, 56-year-old Pickpocket Albert Lewis announced that honest toil was best, even at $5 a week, after he was arrested for the 96th time. In Missouri State Prison, 83-year-old H.O. Chenoweth, a lifer, refused to ask for a parole, held out for just "a little outside privilege, so I can go over to the river and fish." In London, relatives of 86-year-old Thomas Morrell reported him missing, believed he had probably run away...
...since the last war, the Hasty Pudding Club has decided to cancel its annual production in view of the national emergency and the pressure of many new demands upon students, publicity manager Holbrook R. Davis '43 announced last night. This year's show would have been the Club's 96th...