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Died. Lieut. General Sir Iven Giffard Mackay, 84, Australian war hero, who won the nickname "Iven the Terrible" at Gallipoli in World War I for single-handedly holding a trench under heavy Turkish assault for two hours, in World War II was a brilliant field officer, leading Anzac troops to a stunning victory in Libya before returning home in 1941 to gird against an invasion by Japan that happily never came; after a long illness; in Sydney...
...Force. Air Commandos, proud of their Anzac-style hats, live in a strange world of seemingly obsolete aircraft: the B-26 bomber, T-28 trainer, slow C46 and C-47 cargo-troop planes. Instead of supersonic jets, they have the U-10 monoplane, which can slow to 30 m.p.h. without stalling, is ideal for dropping leaflets or broadcasting by loudspeaker to villagers. Says one Commando officer: "A loudspeaker is a lot cheaper than...
...leave-taking from Florida's Eglin Air Force Base. The wives were up to date in Jamaica shorts and Capri pants-but their Air Commando husbands, togged out in green fatigues and ANZAC-style campaign hats, looked like something out of a World War II movie. Some of the men stood with their families alongside a flight ramp; others huddled near a waiting Military Air Transport Service C-118. Then, with the call of the roll, the 53 men went one by one into the big transport. It swung around, taxied to the runway, and took...
...tradition that probably began with the Romans' SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus). Britons in the 19th century, for example, contributed posh (port out, starboard home), a way to remember the breeze-cooled side on Indiabound ships. Acronyms first picked up speed in World War I with such coinages as Anzac, for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, AWOL, for absent without official leave, and asdic (Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee), which eventually led to the development of sonar (sound navigation ranging...
...first Anzac scouts scaled Gallipoli's third ridge and looked down on the calm waters of the Narrows, only 3½ miles away. Mustapha Kemal Ataturk was then an obscure colonel commanding a reserve division at Boghali near the Narrows. Grasping instantly that the heights were the key to the Allied assault, Kemal threw his whole division into the attack, drove the Anzacs from the ridges and pinned them to the cliffs. That night the Anzac toehold seemed so precarious that the corps commander asked permission to pull out. In the best British tradition Sir Ian fired...