Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battlefield came Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, overall commander of the operation. Generals and admirals in varied uniforms, sun helmets, marine wool jackets, coveralls, khakis and tin hats, ac companied him on an inspection tour. The task ahead was tough - a process of digging the Japs out of one fortified ridge after another to the end of the island, twelve miles away. But the Admiral was confident. As his amphibious-force commander, Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, expressed it: all the troops have "got their tails over the dashboard and are going to town...
...trump card, creating a hero legend around the Führer 's death, while Hitler himself goes underground." To fasten the hoax on posterity, Reichsbildberichterstatter (Photo graphic Reporter for the Reich) Heinrich Hoffmann would "be on hand to film Hitler's last moment on the battlefield."* -Whose 82nd birthday was celebrated this week at a San Simeon party attended by sons and satellites (Louella Parsons...
Sergeant Selden Rodman, editor-on-leave of Common Sense, now stationed in Washington, D.C.: "All serious war poetry is antiwar poetry. . . . Some of the best war poetry has been written by poets who have never been near a battlefield-witness Thomas Hardy, Rilke, Rimbaud. But . . . almost all the poetry glorifying war has [also] been written by people who have never been near a battlefield...
...question stood out: granted that . tactical air assaults on airfields, seaports and naval bases are designed primarily to isolate a battlefield, what battlefield was being isolated? Southwest of the target areas lay the Ryukyu Islands, Formosa* and the China coast. The Japs could take their choice and pay the price...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, accompanied by Presidential Secretary Stephen Early and rows of high-polished brass, journeyed to a historic World War I battlefield last week to honor the World War II heroes of Bastogne, the 101st Airborne Division. To the 101st went the Army's Distinguished Unit Citation, never before awarded to an entire Army division. (Three Marine divisions have received the Navy's Presidential Unit Citation...