Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hope. Servicemen still in the Pacific hoped that this would be the last journey for their dead comrades. So did the only war widow who has yet visited her husband's grave in a Pacific battlefield. Said Red Cross Worker Virginia Matthews, whose husband, Second Lieut. Ernest A. Matthews, died at Tarawa...
...most readers the single actions which measured off the tremendous campaign are household words-Kula Gulf, Saipan, Leyte, Okinawa-but they remain isolated incidents on the war's vastest and most unfamiliar battlefield. TIME Editor Cant has fitted these battles into the context of comprehensive, coherent history. The battle narratives are packed with detailed descriptions of the forces involved, the missions assigned to each, the complex of pressures which determined the outcome. At the same time, Cant points out the needs which governed the course and timing of U.S. operations...
Said Stars and Stripes: "The aristocracy-peasantry relationship characteristic of our armed forces has a counterpart nowhere else in American life." To the argument that the system is needed for battlefield discipline, Stars and Stripes retorted: "Such privileges and preferences actually destroy respect for rank, undermine morale and efficiency...
...delegates of 51 nations gathered last week for the first UNO General Assembly. They met on a great battlefield of the war-London. That battle, as much as Stalingrad or Midway, had been a turning point in the war. Though the delegates inevitably brought lesser interests along, they gathered also with a sense of dedication. Around the globe, the living shared...
Neurotics, playing their own warped perspectives against battlefield dangers, often make better-than-adequate soldiers. A few of history's notables-Ivan the Terrible, a manic depressive; Julius Caesar, an epileptic; Alexander the Great, sometimes called the "divine lunatic"; and Peter the Great, who killed his own men in fits of temper-were good soldiers in spite of-or perhaps because of-their mental ills. The Army Medical Corps' Major William Needles has decided that nervous handicaps may act as psychological crutches...