Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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World War II: Was a hard combat leader in the South Pacific. As a colonel training the 9th Regiment, he kept up a relentless pace (often 18 hours a day); his insistence on perfection earned him the nickname, "Combat Ready." Every new marine got a talk from the C.O. Subjects: duty, selfdiscipline, religion (he is a devout Episcopalian). Became a brigadier general in 1943, then led the Cape Gloucester operation at New Britain. On Guam, his ist Provisional Marine Brigade led one of the beachhead assaults; on Okinawa, Major General Shepherd led his 6th Marine Division to its objective early...
Last May, Texas' 136th Fighter-Bomber Wing, commanded by Colonel Prendergast, was ordered to Korea. It was the first Air National Guard unit of wing size to reach Korea, and it racked up a good combat record: 2 MIGs positive, 5 probable, 50 damaged...
Last week Colonel Prendergast climbed into his Thunder jet, took off on his 27th combat mission, a standard workhorse job-cutting enemy rail lines near Sinan-ju. Mission completed, he was leading his formation home when he got word that the landing field at Taegu was all but socked in by weather, and that several score orbiting planes were stacked up there waiting their turns to land. Prendergast led his men to another field, saw them head in safely, one by one, then started down himself. He was making his final approach when he ran out of fuel...
...somewhat reluctantly accepted, the notion of a multilingual, continental army, to serve alongside U.S. and British troops in SHAPE. By the end of 1953, said the French last week, this Army will have some 1,000,000 men. About half, or 590,000 of them, will be organized into combat divisions, the rest will be service and support troops. The divisional breakdown: 14 French, 12 German, 12 Italian, and five from Benelux (Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg...
...remote Tibetan ancestry-much as the Romans, and the Scots and Irish after them, used the bagpipe: the tarogato's sound was a stirring call to war. In skirmishes with their Austrian rulers in the early 17003, patriotic tarogato players could arouse their fellow peasants to wild combat fury merely by playing their favorite songs of freedom. The annoyed