Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weathered old sea eagle had been retired eight years. He told the Admiralty: "I want to die on a battlefield-not in bed." Said the Admiralty: "Too old." Eventually he was given an assignment deemed suitable for a superannuated sailor-as liaison officer to the Mediterranean commander Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham. Sir Walter, still alarmed by the risk of dying in bed, got Cunningham to assign him to the Commandos, to train Commando-men in handling small boats...
Before & behind them companies, battalions, regiments and divisions of the Nineteenth Army still scurried this way & that, like bugs uncovered by the lifting of a stone. On a battlefield long isolated by one of the most precise air operations of the war, they were all but bereft of tanks, bitterly short of food, cut off from all help from their carefully laid supply systems...
...regimental commanders and nearly all battalion C.O.s. At Levant, where the Germans fought bitterly from their camouflaged hideouts, the casualties struck deep again. By then, because Canadian replacements were fewer, the outfit was more than two-thirds U.S. and many of its officers were ex-noncoms commissioned on the battlefield...
Army men learned without surprise last week that Lieut. General Lesley McNair -who served his country for 40 years, fought in two wars, trained an army of some 7,000,000 men and died on a French battlefield at the age of 61-had left an estate...
...July, the War Department announced that "Whitey" McNair was no longer in his old place. In recognition of a job superbly done, he had been sent overseas to combat duty. Last week from the Normandy battlefield came the end of the story. "Whitey" McNair had been killed in action...