Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Not even these two able strategists could know precisely what sort of campaign they must prepare for. Japan supposedly has 1,750,000 men under arms, ready to defend the homeland. Would they fight to the same bitter end as the 85,000 on Okinawa? Would they exact the same...
Post Mortem. How long the fleet had been held there, supporting the invasion, had become the subject of rumbling & mumbling in Washington. Homer Bigart, conscientious front-line correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, had kicked off with a dispatch from Okinawa, suggesting that Tenth Army tactics had been ultraconservative...
Esteemed through six major wars and scores of minor ones, in peacetime the Army influence has always been suspect. Yet the sight of West Point on parade is always heart-quickening.. One good and typical reason could be found in the young stalwart who led the parade this week...
Thayer also inaugurated: 1) high stand ards of admission; 2) the breaking up of classes into small sections so that instructors could speed the bright cadets and worry along with the dullards; 3) daily recitations and grades for all cadets; 4) a Spartan life; 5) hikes by the Corps to...
Woody swiftly learned that an order from a superior carried "the impact of a rifle shot" - and that everyone is superior to a plebe except "the Superintendent's dog, the Commandant's cat, the waiters in the Mess Hall, the Hell Cats (buglers), and all the Admirals in...