Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken by U.S. troops in the drive across the Pacific. The Japs, who knew its value, gave it up hard. Their losses: 16,000 dead, 1,000 prisoners, countless others missing in the caves where they were buried by explosive and by bulldozers. In this dispatch from the battlefield, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod tells of the Japs' last stand...
...Master Race. It is a sadly beaten and demoralized army that leaves dead generals on the battlefield. East of Minsk, among 5,000 enemy dead,, the Russians found a corpse in a general's uniform...
They had won the distinction of three special communiqués from General Eisenhower's headquarters. Not only did they seriously damage Nazi communications to the Normandy battlefield, they also fought Nazi divisions in skirmishes and pitched battles; they were keeping ten of them tied down in the interior of France...
...white-pillared Mount Washington Hotel, the chosen battlefield, Lord Keynes led a British delegation of 15 which included two of England's best economic brains: Lionel C. Robbins and Dennis H. Robertson...
Fortunately, simple bullet wounds do not hurt much at first. For more severe wounds, Medical Corpsmen are ready on the battlefield with dope. If a wounded man can walk, he is bandaged and told where to go. If he cannot walk, litter bearers are sent for him. He gets some temporary patching at the battalion aid station and more at the clearing station...