Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manila to negotiate with General MacArthur. ... On my way back to Burma, I was caught in Hong Kong by the outbreak of war. During the fighting there, I placed myself under the command of our military observer, Colonel Reynolds Condon. When the surrender came, Colonel Condon instructed me to burn my A.V.G. papers and enter civilian internment with false papers as a newspaperman. I was thus very fortunately repatriated...
...anxious throngs who crowded into Mexico City's Palacio Nacional this week, bland President Manuel Avila Camacho displayed a two-inch swath burned in the jacket of his grey-and-red striped suit, a similar powder burn in his white shirt beneath. The burns were over his heart...
...They freeze in storms of ice-cold rain and hail. Their feet burn and smart horribly from endless marching through mud. Their stomachs growl because food arrives irregularly and often must be dropped from airplanes. Even ammunition is often scarce when the supply trains cannot proceed because of enemy activity or bottomless mud on the roads...
Allied air objectives were still twofold: to smash up German war power (especially aircraft industry) on the ground; to bleed the Luftwaffe white in grinding air combat. Allied airmen still hoped the pace would burn out the Luftwaffe by summer...
...another dark night Lieut. Ralph Brown led a patrol of six men with thermite grenades and wine bottles of gasoline to burn the fortified town jail. They turned the structure into a roaring inferno, but by morning the blaze had burned out, the stone walls were still standing, the Germans were back again...