Word: buna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tattered bundles, a dozen silent men crawled into the wagon, huddled together against the cold, and jolted through the gate into the snowy darkness. Among them was Primo Levi, a young Italian Jew who had been interned for two years at Auschwitz and the nearby slave-labor camp of Buna-Monowitz. In an earlier book, If This Is a Man, Chemist-Sociologist Levi recalled his imprisonment in chilling detail. In this reflective sequel, he tells of his arduous return to life. With jovial inefficiency, the Russians shunted him from camp to camp, finally sent him off on a ramshackle freight...
...crack outfit. It earned its shoulder patch, a red arrow piercing a battle line, in the Meuse-Argonne during World War I. Its first casualties were suffered when the troopship Tuscania was sunk by a German submarine. In World War II the Red Arrow Division fought its way from Buna to Saidor to Hollandia to Aitape to Luzon in 654 combat days-more than any other army unit in the nation's history. Along the way its men won n Congressional Medals of Honor, 49 Legions of Merit, 153 Distinguished Service Crosses. In these two wars, the 32nd suffered...
Died. General Robert Lawrence Eichelberger, 75, tall, rugged ramrod of the Pacific War who led the first successful U.S. ground offensive against the Japanese at New Guinea's bloody Buna Beach, later commanded the famed "Amphibious Eighth" Army in more than 60 amphibious assaults, and was the first U.S. general officer to land in conquered Japan; of pneumonia following surgery; in Asheville, N.C. A soldier's soldier who believed that "the best way for a general to find out what is happening is to go up where the bullets are being fired," West Pointer Eichelberger saw his first...
...kangaroo courts) for sentencing to the dozens of new "work rehabilitation camps" springing up across the land. To qualify, the victims needed only to be "work shy" or reluctant to volunteer for the army, or merely generally "injurious to the public welfare." Two workers at a carbide plant in Buna were beaten for failing to enlist for military service, then were hauled before a judge, who noted happily that "they got the fist of the workers' class for their cowardly statements." In Leipzig, two members of a jazz club drew 13 and 15-year terms because, as the court...
Died. Major General Joseph Sladen Bradley, 60, who won the Silver Star at New Guinea's Buna Beach in World War II, commanded the 25th Division during its drive into North Korea in 1951; of cancer; in Walter Reed Army Hospital...