Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tanks on Tinian. North of Guam, 125 miles, lay another U.S.-Jap battlefield: 48-square-mile Tinian, only three miles from Saipan. On its comparatively level ground, the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions deployed more tanks than had yet been seen on a Pacific island...
Part of the German tank forces had been beautifully feinted out of position by a preliminary thrust at Evrecy, southwest of Caen. Then the real blow was hurled east of Caen, as Allied tanks, vehicles, infantrymen moved forward. The battlefield was spectacular, wreathed in clouds of golden yellow dust, through which the sullen sun shone like a dull copper disc...
...wards accommodate 50 to 70 men each. The 40-odd officers bunk four and six to the room. The X ray, the pharmacy and all the assorted medical and surgical equipment are as good as in the best U.S. hospitals. But to the marine or soldier arriving from the battlefield's filth, the most wonderful thing about the Solace is the food. The night I was there supper was chicken a la king and strawberry ice cream...
Fifteen enlisted men won battlefield promotions. After Cassino, where they had spearheaded the crossing of the Rapido River and had clung to a corner of the town for many days, their combat strength was down...
...just while she was on the subject, "the President himself has no first-hand knowledge of war either, we might add. Like his little boy friends, Pearson and Winchell, he stayed far away from the battlefield of the first World War.* Although at that time a young man, and in perfect physical condition, he did 'his bit' as Assistant Secretary of the Navy-right here in Washington...