Word: commando
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...savage, costly attack; 17 Allied planes did not return. It proved, as the July 4 Commando raid on the island had proved, that Crete is formidable. But the island will have to be reduced before any Allied thrust is made toward the Balkans. Now, perhaps, the preliminary softening-up is under...
...Gela, a soiled town on a blue bay, the main initial objective of the U.S. troops. Against Gela and its environs had been thrown a great weight of naval shells and aerial bombs. Against Gela, now, were sent crack troops of the Seventh Army: first a shock battalion of Commando-trained Rangers under Lieut. Colonel William O. Darby, who was to do brave things, and Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen's tried-&-proved 1st Division...
They and Their Pals. To be amphibious-that was the basic Commando requirement. On Britain's coast, selected soldiers merged the lore of the Royal Navy with their own. They learned how to "get in and out of a small boat in all kinds of weather"; to swim, fully equipped, holding their firearms above water; to know about mortars, anti-tank rifles, high explosives. They also had to learn the double lesson of cooperation, individual initiative. Each man was encouraged "to do everything with a friend"-fall in beside him, handle the magazine of his Bren gun, scout with...
...when alone, every commando man must be self-sufficient. He is given six shillings, eightpence-a day, and must live on it. He may be paraded at 3 p.m. one day and told that the next parade will be at 6 a.m. the following morning, at a place 100 miles away. How he gets there is his own business. He must be his own cook. Muttered the horrified captain of a Commando-carrying gunboat: "There are 50 soldiers frying bacon in my wardroom...
...thus long on power and short on freight space. But planes are on the way. Douglas, besides turning out the veteran DC-35, is also producing the C-54, a four-engined mon ster with a payload of ten tons. Curtiss is turning out the powerful two-engined Commando ("Dumbo" to airmen) which made the mass flight to India...