Word: combats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides these combat losses, 85,219 had died from other causes (illness and rear-area accidents). The awesome total: 308,978. The latest Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard figures show 87,659 dead and missing, for a U.S. armed forces total...
...Department released all-but-final figures on the casualties of World War II: 176,432 killed in action; 26,422 dead of wounds or injuries received in combat; 19,481 missing and declared dead; 1,424 missing, not yet declared dead...
...opinion' of my article "The Conqueror" which you quoted in the May 6 TIME. He is not entitled to his gratuitous slur upon all chaplains when he refers to them as holders of noncombat commissions who came safely and comfortably through the war under the protection of combat soldiers. . . . Chaplains did hold noncombat commissions in that they carried no weapons. But they were assigned to every combat outfit in the Army, and had less protection than the average combat soldier since they did not carry weapons. Seventy-seven of them were killed in action, 253 were, wounded...
Gunboats prowled along the Arakan coast and up the muddy Irrawaddy. Mechanized units rumbled over Burma's uneven dirt roads. At key airdromes R.A.F. transports stood ready to fly crack combat units where they were needed. Burma's garrison of about 50,000 British and Indian troops was three times prewar size and growing...
Louis XIV had over 2,000 enemas during his reign, sometimes holding court while the ceremony progressed. Aristocratic enemas were delicately tinted and scented. They were also so widely used as a means of poisoning that Louis XIV set up a special detective agency to combat the wave of enema-murders among his nobility...