Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...achieve even 120 wings, the Air Force would have to skeletonize transport and tactical units and cut its long-range assault outfit, the atom-bomb-carrying Strategic Air Command, from 57 to 52 wings. It would also have to supplement current funds with "holdover" money appropriated during the Truman Administration. After 1956. the holdover Truman money will be gone. Then, unless its budget has been increased again in the meantime, the Air Force will have to trim down to 79 wings, about three-quarters of its present strength (103 wings...
...Guderian, an exacting judge. Erich von Manstein charted the daring Panzer thrust through the Ardennes that split the Allied armies and defeated France, and was assigned to lead the German landing in Britain (Operation Sea-Lion ) that never happened (because the amazing British beat off Goring's air assault). In Russia, he opened the fortified gateway to the Crimean peninsula, stormed the Russian Black Sea naval bastion at Sevastopol, and led the counterattack that retook Kharkov in March 1943. Hitler, disliking his outspoken manners as much as he depended on his ability, finally fired him in 1944, first acknowledging...
Married. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, 66, retired Marine Corps commandant (1944-47), who led the Marines' 1942 assault on Guadalcanal; and Catherine Henson McDaniel, 49, nurse of his late wife; he for the second time, she for the third; in Fort Lauderdale...
...attackers of Richmond Bachelder '50 and Frederick J. Fawcett '53 received sentences of three months in the house of correction and $200 fines for assault and battery Friday...
...four-hour trial, the Third District Court convicted Robert Carry and James Scalese, both 18, of Cambridge, on the "grave" charge of unprovoked assault and battery. Although doctors testified that a wound through Bachelder's right car resulted from a "sharp instrument," the Court could not find armed assault because of the absence of a weapon...