Word: commandos
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...Commando Captain Robin Campbell, D.S.O., sociable, absent-minded son of one of Britain's top-flight diplomats (Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell, now Ambassador to Portugal), was wounded and captured in the brilliant but unsuccessful 1941 raid on Field Marshal Rommel's headquarters in North Africa. Exchanged (because he had lost a leg), he summed up his prison-camp experience in an article for London's literary review Horizon, reprinted in Boston's June Atlantic Monthly...
Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, Pittsburgh's rugged redhead who won the Congressional Medal of Honor near Altavilla (TIME, March 20), began a 90-day tour of U.S. Army camps, after making a confession: "Being a hero is the bunk. I wish I was going across...
...begins with a greying head nurse (Irene Dunne) waiting in a London hos pital for the return of her son from the disastrous Dieppe Commando raid. While she waits, the picture slips with a loud grinding of gears into the flashback that takes up most of the film...
...boat train John II (Roddy McDowell) refuses to go. ("You durn little English man," wheezes his mother, with tearful pride.) So they stay. John flirts innocently (against Tennysonian landscapes) with a farmer's daughter until it is time for World War II. Then he joins a Commando...
Years of Happiness. Looking back, Jan Smuts says that his Boer War days were his happiest. He came out of them 30 pounds heavier, transformed from a bookish lawyer into a hardened leader of men. On their tough Basuto ponies, he and his tough commando (guerrilla) column made a record march (700 miles in five weeks) across veld and mountain. They repeatedly outwitted Lord Kitchener's proud British Army, which Winston Churchill was covering as a young correspondent. When the rains came, they rode in water, slept in water; they endured cold, hunger, rags, sudden surprise, desperate flight. Through...