Word: cleanups
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...tireless reporter, sensitive to the sights, sounds, horror and humor of war. His cables reflected that sensitiveness. In the Kwajalein cleanup his eyes had caught the sight of a dead Jap's bearded waxen face sprinkled with the rubble of a wrecked pillbox, on Leyte the pathos of G.I.s celebrating Christmas by decorating twigs with Christmas wrappings and empty cigaret packs...
...land in the western Pacific, said Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher last week, when he returned to California for a 30-day leave. Gnomish "Pete" Mitscher, dried and puckered by wind and sun, brought back the staff which had helped him plan and execute a historic cleanup of Jap ships, planes and fighting men. In nine months (Jan. 29 to Oct. 27), his fast carrier task forces of the Pacific Fleet - operating part of the time as Task Force...
With the occupation of Morotai and the strategic end of the New Guinea campaign, the U.S. presumably has two more major jungle campaigns before Japan is beaten : the Philippines and the cleanup in Burma. But after two and a half years of jungle fighting, U.S. jungle equipment is still far from perfect...
...Kicks. Operating boss of this cleanup job is slow-talking, 52-year-old Brigadier General Frank Johnson McSherry, who was born in El Dorado Springs, Mo., fought in World War I, in 1942 served in Washington as director of operations for tRe War Manpower Commission...
...Sweeping reforms in the Army, including a thorough cleanup of the graft-rotted conscription system; disbanding of divisions with low morale to provide more equipment and rice for divisions with higher morale; widening the conscription base to include students...