Word: bangser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general attitude of the Americans was reflected by Lieutenant Lawrence Bangser, veteran Marine raider: "Either this Jap general is the world's greatest tactician or the world's most stupid man." Before noon on L-day (Loveday in the voice signal alphabet), the Jap general had lost Okinawa beyond reprieve. The tanks had arrived, the artillery was arriving to augment the planes and naval gunfire. The fleet's big guns had not been necessary in the immediate sense of killing Japs, but they had perhaps discouraged the halfhearted Jap general...
...Columbia Saturday, Tom Rogstad threw Larry Bangser in 4:28 minutes in the final and deciding match. Up to that point that Lions were leading by a one point margin. Among the other Harvard victors in that meet were Harry Blain, Captain Dick Thomas, Don Miles, and Lee Sosman...
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