Word: archers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beautiful. I very much like the look of it," said Lieut. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, who just one year ago had led the first American attack against the Jap-held Solomon Islands. Now, back in the South Pacific, commanding the newly formed I Marine Amphibious Corps, he was making a shrewd observation on the success of the combined Army-Marine-Navy operations against Munda, once the strongest Jap base in the central Solo mons...
...Other divisions, other commanders may have earned equal repute. But in public fame the 1st Infantry Division has only one U.S. rival: the 1st Marine Division under Lieut. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, conqueror of Guadalcanal (TIME, Nov. 2), who last week became the commander of the First Marine Amphibious Corps...
...Pringles (outraged parents of deb-age Mildred) are feuding with the Archers (proud parents of Lieut. Lenny and Junior Miss Corliss) because Mrs. Archer called Mildred a "tramp." While the pappies get to punching each other's noses, Lenny and Mildred elope, confiding only in Corliss. Lenny goes overseas, Mildred discovers she is to have a baby, and Corliss-who has been seen with Mildred at the doctor's and is sworn "in blood" to secrecy-pretends that the baby is hers. Mr. & Mrs. Archer have a bad time for an act, but the audience has a fine...
...Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor to Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift of the Marine Corps, for "outstanding and heroic accomplishment" as commander of the Solomon Islands forces...
After almost five months of continuous action on one of the most perilous beachheads they ever defended, the Marines deserved a rest. Not in recent history had U.S. fighting men seen so much continuous front-line action. Under studious, composed Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, they had met 15,000 Japanese and learned by bitter experience how to meet the Japs' strange, unorthodox tactics of the jungle...