Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aboard were 370 members of the ist Marine Division-survivors of Tulagi, conquerors of Guadalcanal; the men who mowed down the Japs like hay at Bloody Ridge, and crossed the bloody Matanikau River; the invaders of Cape Gloucester, the rain-drenched fighters of Talasea, the men who took Hill 660 when they should have been annihilated halfway up; the unnamed defenders of Nameless Hill, the survivors of Coffin Corner...
...train clacked on slowly, through the desert and up the mountains. As the coffee cups rattled in the dining cars the little marine said: "I haven't shaken so much since the night we went around Cape Hatteras, leaving the States." At Tucumcari, there was time for a beer at the station hotel: on the first round it cost a quarter; by the second the price shot to 40?. Said the red-haired sergeant from Rochester, not complaining, but just noticing: "Somebody's making money...
...train leaves South Station Sunday morning at 8 o'clock and returns twelve hours later. This train ride takes you 72 miles down through the historical south shore of Massachusetts past Plymouth, across the Cape Cod Canal at Buzzards Bay, and finally to Woods Hole on the southern neck of the Cape, jutting out into Vineyard Sound...
Long Way Home. Promoted on the field to officer's rank, Lieut. Paige chose to stay with his men. ("No man could beat that gang.") He served with them brilliantly in the attack on Cape Gloucester and the taking of Hill...
...Russians' principal objective is Berlin. What they want to do in Finland is liquidate the war on this front, shorten their front by some 600 miles, free 30 to 50 divisions, drive the Germans from their North Cape positions (from which they are still seriously harassing Allied sea lanes), free their Baltic fleet to cut German communications to Norway and northern Finland. The Russians believe these aims can be achieved without the military occupation of Finland. But they believe that the present Finnish Government must...