Word: chatham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These riflemen on the porch roof of the Chatham (La.) public library were not playing. While indifferent townsmen lounged below, they were busy sniping at Blue troops in maneuvers which, beginning this week, sent 450,000 troops into battle between the Second and Third Armies. To prepare the U.S. public for such casualties as falling off roofs and crashes in tanks and planes, the U.S. Army last week announced that 136 soldiers might be expected to die during the 15-day September maneuvers (17 from disease, 119 from injuries), that as many as 40,000 more might be expected...
...Thayer Drake, 3rd, of Matthews Hall, Chatham High, and Chatham, New Jersey...
...Home Guardsman Harry Foulds was haled before the magistrates of Chatham, Kent, charged with theft from the Crown of a pistol, ammunition and a helmet which he had taken from a bailed-out German airman. Defense Counsel Gerald Thesinger based his case on Rex v. Broom, in the reign of William III, which was based in turn on a case tried during the reign of Henry VIII. These cases upheld the right of any British subject to retain any property he may be able to seize from "the King's enemy." "Therefore," argued Thesinger, "the property was never vested...
Ervin Thayer Drake III '44 of Matthews Hall and Chatham, New Jersey, was elected Freshman soccer captain following Wednesday's 1 to 1 tie with Andover...
...days afterwards German planes ranged widely over the British Isles on scattered raids in small formations. They said they smashed the runway at the Bristol airport, the Pobjoy airplane-engine works at Rochester, an explosives factory at Faversham, docks and shipyards at Newcastle, Sheerness, Chatham. On the third day they staged another big show, beginning at 7:30 a.m., on Dover's repaired balloon barrage...