Word: carlsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battling around him was to record for all time a true picture of how they dared and died. All through the first day on that "island of 5,000 dead" he expected he too would soon be one of those to die-and Raider Chief Evans Carlson wrote us later to express his "very genuine admiration" for Sherrod's "courage, fortitude and superb aplomb...
...list of World War II specialists in close combat-Edson's and Carlson's Marine Raiders, British Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate's Raiders, Mountbatten's Commandos, U.S. Army Rangers-another was added last week. It was Merrill's Marauders, first U.S. foot soldiers to fight on the continent of Asia...
...runner-up (550,000 copies) was another publishing surprise, Under Cover ($3.50), in which U.S. Journalist John Roy Carlson recounted his experiences through the four years he worked as a one-man, self-appointed secret agent, lived with the thugs, shysters, crackpots and brazenly scheming native U.S. fascists...
...realized I wasn't frightened any longer. Perhaps it was when I noticed the bullets were hitting six inches to the right or six inches to the left. I remember laughing inside and saying: 'You , you certainly are lousy shots.' That, as I told Colonel Carlson the next day, is what I now call my hysteria period...
...aggressiveness, this haunted fear, these ugly cramps in the fine faces of boys, born in Boston, raised in Boston, slugging it out in Boston. But neither the Monitor nor any other Boston paper had talked of the childish misery-not until New York's PM (and John Roy Carlson's national bestseller, Under Cover) had given Governor Saltonstall "a rude awakening" (TIME...