Word: belleau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First World War. The Great War. We got shipped to Liverpool in 1918, train to Southhampton, boat to Le Havre, and in we went. Not much time to think. I was at the Marne, St. Quentin, Belleau Woods, the Wheatfields...
...Belleau Woods?" He points out at the dump. "Belleau Woods was a little forest about the size of this place. We hacked at each other for three weeks in that little forest. All the trees got shot up and burnt. It looked like a field of burnt telephone poles. About eight thousand Marines got killed...
...sort of Spoon River Anthology of the war. The form was the same, in the sense that each character spoke with his own voice to compose a harsh recitative for a community. But March's community was made up of the doomed dogfaces of Soissons and Belleau Wood, rather than the villagers of Edgar Lee Masters' peaceful U.S. hinterland...
...your cover and article on Admiral Pride [Feb. 7] . . . I was one of his O.O.D.s in combat on the Belleau Wood during the tough part of World War II ... Pride is a modern Abraham Lincoln - the very soul of humility, inspiring confidence at every turn. He commands respect but returns respect in full measure...
...year after Pearl Harbor Day, Pride got his first seagoing command: the carrier Belleau Wood, which joined with the Wasp, Enterprise, Saratoga and Essex as the first big carrier strike force. Some of the names entered on the Belleau Wood's log: Tarawa, Wake Island, Makin, Kwajalein, Truk, Saipan, Tinian...