Word: anzio
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...Bites Dog. The ringleaders in the idea were not noted for their piety. Richard D. Hilliard, for instance, was a hard-living investment broker who had come through 568 days of combat duty at such hotspots as Salerno and Anzio. Owsley Brown, board chairman of Brown-Forman Distillers Corp., said he would put up $15,000 for a church, provided it was matched by other contributions. Almost overnight they had $30,000, and used some of it to buy an old Negro Baptist church down by the river. Then they sent a delegation to the Episcopal bishop of Kentucky...
Arrival of the veteran upon the College scene brought radical alteration to the character of CRIMSON competitions. New blood brought new rules, so that the veteran of Anzio or Guadalcanal no longer had to "sir" his superiors...
...Reilly in a sumptuous villa, explored the wildernesses of Turkestan, Northern India and Iraq. Later he became a vice president of Curtiss-Wright, displayed company planes in Europe, Siam, Turkey and China. In World War II, he became a colonel in the Ninth Air Force, fought at Cassino and Anzio, was shot through the leg in the invasion of Normandy...
Twenty-three-year-old Moravec, who hails from West Bridgewater, Pa., holds the Purple Heart for wounds received in a Naval encounter at Anzio Beach. He studied at Lehigh University before entering the service...
Vince enlisted in the Navy in the spring of 1943 and later that year was a member of the crew of the U.S.S. Lansdale, which was sunk off Anzio Beach. In that engagement, he was wounded in both legs...