Word: beachhead
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...about a month before the invasion of Okinawa was to take place when we took the Marines aboard for our trip to the beachhead. The chaplain attached to these Marines was John Ruskin Clark. It was on this trip that I saw and heard the tops of all chaplains. This month just prior to Easter was a long and trying one, and Clark made each service...
...Beachhead. There was free legal talent to help them, but there was no assurance they would be allowed to settle in the U.S. They were only a handful of the millions of displaced persons in Europe. They were agreed on two basic points: 1) they had lived under both Russian oppression (1940-41) and German (1941-44), saw little difference between them; 2) they wanted to get into...
When U.S. trucks and tanks hit Omaha Beach, says Iris Carpenter, drivers "cried and vomited" as they crunched over the bodies of G.I.s fallen in the first infantry waves. It was sickening and terrible, but the beachhead held firm...
...syndicate of newspapers 17 years ago, in protest against the oldline cable companies, whose stiff rates and habit of sidetracking low-rate press dispatches had annoyed publishers in World War I. PreWi now also carries radio-photos and voice broadcasts, had a mobile station working from a Normandy beachhead on D-day plus...
...profits of this first big beachhead of U.S. capital in Africa looked good. After every South African gold strike there has been an overall industrial boom. If it comes out of the workings of the Orange Free State field American Anglo-Transvaal, through its option to participate in any of Anglo-Transvaal's operations, will be in on the ground floor...