Word: combat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Malmédy massacre of captured U.S. soldiers, during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, was one of the most vicious atrocities committed by Germans in combat during the war. By the testimony of one survivor (who escaped by feigning death after he was shot in the foot), some 160 U.S. soldiers were lined up in a snow-covered field, eight deep and 20 abreast, and raked by machine-gun fire for three minutes...
Radcliffe will extend its dormitory work program next September to combat any further increase in room and board rates other than the price rise announced Friday by the Dean's Office...
...Named for his uncle, who was killed in air combat in World...
...Bites Dog. The ringleaders in the idea were not noted for their piety. Richard D. Hilliard, for instance, was a hard-living investment broker who had come through 568 days of combat duty at such hotspots as Salerno and Anzio. Owsley Brown, board chairman of Brown-Forman Distillers Corp., said he would put up $15,000 for a church, provided it was matched by other contributions. Almost overnight they had $30,000, and used some of it to buy an old Negro Baptist church down by the river. Then they sent a delegation to the Episcopal bishop of Kentucky...
Commander-in-Chief Liu Shih flew down to the grey-walled rail town of Pengpu on the Huai's south bank, to set up a new operational base. Deputy Commander Tu Yu-ming led the march overland with three "army groups" (about 110,000 combat troops), commanded by Generals Li Mi, Chiu Ching-chuan and Sun Yuan-liang. The leader of a fourth army group, General Huang Po-tao, was left a suicide on the field where his 90,000 men had been encircled and cut to pieces. Behind the withdrawing Nationalists, over Suchow's blasted ammunition dumps...