Word: combat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard B. Unruh saw a good bit of combat as a tank gunner in Italy and France. But unlike most front-line soldiers he never smoked, swore or chased girls. He drank a little kümmel, but only as an experiment. He was a slender, shy, high-domed youth with dark hair, pallid skin, thick lips and sunken cheeks...
...What Tom, Dick or Joe will Taft have to beat? So far embarrassed anti-Taft forces didn't know. Lausche had shown no desire to get in a mortal combat with Taft. Besides, he rather liked Taft and had publicly said...
...Intelligence work" meant almost anything in World War II, from picking up bedroom gossip in Lisbon to sieving through trade statistics in Washington, and almost anybody with a college degree could get into the intriguing act. But when the army needed combat intelligence in a hurry, it usually sent out none but hand-picked "Joes." This fast-moving novel, which won the first $15,000 award of the Catholic Society of the Christophers (TIME, April 14, 1947), tells what happened when the army dropped three volunteers behind the German lines in the last winter of fighting...
...Preble in the service and in combat where he might observe the carnage and waste inflicted on those who are now called D.P.S...
...caused by whales or schools of fish. But far more baffling were the cases in which a different sound impulse was recorded. This, it seemed, might be the enemy's own detection device at work. Many a crew was called to battle stations ready for deep-sea combat, only to learn that the signals had been lost. It was most confusing...