Word: bunkerism
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...hour after the landing, Fireman First Class Aurelio Tassone of Milford, Mass. was roaring along on his 20-ton 'dozer when he spotted an enemy strongpoint. Skirting the coconut-logged bunker, he came at it from the rear. Bullets banged off the big blade which he had raised as a shield. The tractor rolled on like its armored offspring, the tank...
...divisional commaders, one of the highest-rated soldiers of the U.S. Army is Major General Hugh J. Gaffey, an artillery specialist turned leader of the 2nd Armored Division. Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, commander of the 82nd, first U.S. airborne division to strike the enemy, is a strapping six-footer who made a reputation as G-3 (operations) officer in the Second Army maneuvers...
...Englanders who once boasted of never having visited "touristy" Revolutionary landmarks are now setting out from Boston's Park Square, in horse-drawn busses, to visit Old North Church and Bunker Hill; now go by bus and train to see the Minute Man statue on Lexington's Green and Concord's "rude bridge that arched the flood...
Dates for Boston to remember: the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Regimental Hall...
...seventh new one since Pearl Harbor-the Cowpens, fourth of the 10,000-ton cruisers converted to carriers (the others: Princeton, Independence, Belleau Wood). To be launched this week is the new Yorktown, fourth of the Navy's 25,000-ton regular carriers (others: Essex, new Lexington, Bunker Hill). Seven more of the Essex class, as well as more Princetons, are being built...