Word: combats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only double equestrian statue in the world"-a bronze work depicting the parting of Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson on the eve of the Battle of Chancellorsville. In the dedicatory oration Douglas Southall Freeman, author of Lee's Lieutenants, called them the "greatest American combat team...
...Federal Council of Churches presented to President Truman a seven-point program for "averting war without yielding sound democratic principles." Highlights: no complacency, hysteria or fatalism about war; economic, social and moral programs to combat Communism, rather than military strategy; renewed vigor of the churches in testifying to God's love and Christian fellowship...
...accomplishing a thing. Savage changed all that. He did it by singling out the incompetents and cowards by name, leading the group on most of the missions. If his discipline and briefings read like a cross between any army manual and a football pep talk, many a combat man will remember that just such near-Rover Boy leadership paid off in the clutch...
...dozen pages which describe the climactic mission into Germany (based largely on an account of the Regensburg raid which Lay wrote for the Satevepost) must be close to the best writing about air combat to come out of World...
...naval officer he requested combat duty, got it as flag secretary to Admiral William Halsey, who called him "a great naval officer." He saw plenty of action, went without sleep for 70 hours evacuating U.S. prisoners from Japan after...