Word: braved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soft of dry-land equivalent of Noel Coward's famed In Which We Serve, tells with considerable force one of the real stories of modern war. The story: how a shuffling motley of unwilling conscripts, drawn from every walk of life, are transformed into proficient and brave infantrymen...
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...First Army; that Hitler had passed on every major military decision since the start of the war, and that he had ''good intuition." Rundstedt did not doubt that Hitler had died, as represented, on the Berlin barricades-or from overwork. "Der Führer was a brave man," he said. "He proved that in the last...
Your simple account of how his death touched the armed forces, the man in the street, the great and near-great, near & far, and your eloquent tribute to him and to his brave wife, said completely what I have sought to convey to my children. It will be reverently put in their diary as the "requiem" in his memory...
...afternoon. Two universities gave him honorary degrees. Admirers sent him apples, pecans, a cowboy belt, a jeep. He won a Pulitzer Prize, and the first Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for war correspondence. His collected G.I. columns, Here Is Your War, sold over a million copies; a second collection, Brave Men, sold 875,000. Hollywood made a movie (soon to be released) with Burgess Meredith playing Ernie Pyle. Ernie's earnings reached a half million dollars...