Word: battalions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become the best figure skater in the world? In Barbara Ann's case, a casualty on the battlefield of St. Julien in April 1915 (13 years before she was born) had something to do with it. Lieut. Clyde Scott of Canada's "Iron 2nd" Battalion had been hit by shrapnel and machine-gun fire in both hips, one knee and one eye, and left for dead. By sheerest luck, a German search party kicked at a pile of bodies, causing Lieut. Scott, who was on top, to turn .over and groan. He was taken to a German hospital...
More than 200,000 Roman workers stayed away from their jobs the first morning. Communist demonstrators filled the squares, but the De Gasperi government-rather to the general surprise-had done some stage-setting, too. A battalion of regular army troops with full field equipment took up positions in the Piazza Colonna. Armored cars and fast police jeeps rolled through the streets. When a demonstration was expected at the Ministry of the Interior, firemen played a few jets of cold water through the air. There was no demonstration...
...Navy Cadet high command lists Samuel M. Felton '48 as battalion sub-commander with the Cadet rank of Lieutenant. Dewey G. Rushford '48 rates next as battalion adjutant with the rank of Lieutenant, j.g. with Frank, Jr. '48 as battalion lieutenant with the rank of Ensign. John G. Flint, Jr. '48 and Sherwood C. Chillingworth '49 are the company commandants for the naval unit...
Nathanial Ober '50 was appointed to command the ROTC battalion with a rank of Cadet Major in this week's series of Army releases, while carlier this month George J. Hauptfuhrer '48 was chosen NROTC battalion commander with a rank of Cadet Lieutenant Commander...
...Stand by Your Posts." One enterprising reporter discovered why. In a grim moment of Chinese history, Peiping's staid Municipal Council had had a grimly amusing idea: a whole battalion of potential