Word: battalion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Daily Mail, about a half-dozen lines regarding the flight of 310 planes over the enemy lines to offset a counterattack and drop food supplies -as near as I recall it. Reports among the troops were to the effect that they had gone to rescue the "Lost Battalion" and most general and probably the most correct was the report that they delivered some supplies where they were badly needed; directed brief but effective resistance to an unusually vigorous counterattack planned by the enemy; in what seemed like less than 15 or 20 minutes, returned, the entire body of planes...
...month imprisonment (TIME, June 9) was being flagrantly disobeyed. Weeks ago the Bombay police, engulfed by hundreds of thousands of Gandhites and under orders not to fire, became virtually helpless. Soldiers would now be tried. Marching out of their barracks at Poona-near which St. Gandhi remained imprisoned-a battalion 1,000 strong, half British, half native, entrained last week for Bombay with all the paraphernalia of war: rifles, machine guns, armored cars...
...undergraduate at Harvard. Cary was connected with the Freshman Red Book, the Dramatic Club, the Lampoon, and the Harvard Monthly. During the Great War, he enlisted in July, 1917, served in the 301st Field Signal Battalion, and rose from the rank of private to sergeant. His service in France lasted from July, 1918 until...
...Gandhi hopes many another and finally all Englishmen will sail. Moreover, mutiny was in the air. After hiding the fact for days, His Majesty's Government was obliged to admit in an official communique last week that the conduct of two platoons of the second battalion of the 18th Royal Garswal Rifles at Peshawar recently was "unsatisfactory"-that is, these Hindu troops disobeyed their British commander's order to fire on a Hindu mob. With unrest seething hotter and hotter all over India it was no mean proof of Baron Irwin's iron nerve and fitness...
...Points" gang hid him away from the police. When the stranger recovered, young Al was already at work on small "jobs." In a Coney Island fight he was slashed across the left cheek, though later he like to insist that the scar came from War service with the Lost Battalion...