Word: commandos
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...convicts volunteered, 144 already have donated. Men in the prison tailor shop cut material for Red Cross sewing units. Soon the convicts will begin to reclaim rubber-covered copper wire salvaged and brought back from Pearl Harbor. In a million-dollar, convict-built factory, 1,000 skiff-type commando assault boats will be made if San Quentin's bid is accepted...
...McClure, Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower's lean, polo-playing public relations aide, met with the executive committee of the Association of American Correspondents. Newsmen were informed that there was to be an expedition "somewhere." The Army wanted better arrangements, better coverage, better, secrecy than it got in the Commando raid on Dieppe...
...they were still far from ready for combat. Their officers sent them slogging on forced marches through the hills of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, put them on iron rations, made them practice under actual gunfire. Booted parachute troops dropped from planes. Rangers practiced landing assaults and commando-style mayhem. A few of them went with the Canadians to Dieppe...
Edouard got no help from Franchise, who had once loved him. She knew that her brother Blaise and Maurice were planning an escape to England. Soon she learned, to her amazement, that with them was going her American lover, Simon, who, by an unusual coincidence, had joined the British Commandos and been left behind in Brittany after a commando raid. As more & more evidence appeared to incriminate the Galle household, Franchise was torn by conflicting desires: to save the hostages, to see her suspected brother and lover escape...
...rumor that the new uniforms darkening the Yard were Commando suite was cleared up as officials explained that the blue wool shirts and trousers are the new winter uniform. Used for all Naval students here, it has been especially designed to suit conditions of weather and school...