Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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G.I.s in France have had a lot of entertainment from home since the first five U.S.O. units waded ashore in Normandy last July and promptly merged into one mammoth revue, practically on the beach. Dozens of other units have jested and jeeped their way around the fronts; such headliners as Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Edward G. Robinson, Morton Downey, Fred Astaire have come & gone...
Horace E. Thurman of Miami, Florida, and the NROTC was elected President of the Student Council at a meeting last Friday as Daniel P. S. Paul '46 of Daytona Beach, Florida, and Adams House and Harish Mahindra '46 of Washington, D. C., and Adams House were selected for the positions of Treasurer and Secretary...
...returned to New York and last September went out once more to follow his old friend MacArthur back to the Philippines. On Leyte he went ashore on "Red Beach" with the assault troops. His luck still held...
Luzon at Last. It was Tuesday, Jan. 9, when Barbey's landing craft nosed in to the beach extending south from San Fabian. Assault troops streamed ashore in full daylight, direct from LCIs, with no opposition save enemy mortar fire. Wilkinson's group, following Barbey's into the gulf and staking out the southernmost beach west to Lingayen, met no enemy fire, but heavy surf breaking far out complicated the task of landing heavy equipment...
...colleague, energetic Dr. William Francis Brown, 33, he lectures on such contentious subjects as the Wagner Act, the Wages and Hours Act, the economic weapons of labor and management, the causes of industrial unrest. His students: management executives and union officials from the Douglas Aircraft Co.'s Long Beach, Calif, plant...