Word: boatner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Edward Boatner Cochran...
...motor roads and elephant trails leading from his main Burma bases to the northern front. Against his communications Allied planes hammered steadily all week. But the Chinese columns, commanded by Lieut. General Sun Li-jen (pronounced soon lee-run), a V.M.I, graduate, and hardboiled, aggressive U.S. Brigadier General Haydon Boatner, were venturing into an almost trackless wilderness. To avoid backbreaking ground porterage, to foil enemy infiltrations, they depended solely upon air supply. Tried out by British Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate's daring Burma raiders last spring, practiced by Chinese infantry and U.S. aviators back in India, air supply worked...
...Japan. Far ahead, Chinese combat troops under U.S. Brigadier General Haydon Boatner ranged through the jungles, driving back Jap patrols. As the road advanced further into enemy-held territory security guards had to be mounted over the laboring Hairy Ears, who kept their own guns constantly at hand...