Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wherever Lieut. General Sir Montagu George North Stopford led his XXXIII Corps last week, his flock of ducks went also. Every mess tent had its complement of parrots and parakeets. But even the Fourteenth's men thought last week that a sergeant had reached the ultimate. His new pride...
The police learned from the small son of a cook in the monastery adjoining the Cathedral that the choirmaster, a Christian Brother, had been storing bombs in his cell. Irrepressible Bogotanos, recalling how another of the Brothers had been blown up last February when a bomb exploded in his pocket...
Britain's War Secretary Sir James Grigg rose in the House of Commons in London one day last week to charge that the Canadian Army in Germany was, in fact, not Canadian. Said he: "United Kingdom troops form two-thirds of the Canadian First Army." He could not, he...
But the business of giving credit where credit is due should work both ways. Canadians wanted the world to know that some 20% of all the flyers in Britain's Royal Air Force are Canadians, that the battle-experienced British Eighth Army in Italy includes the Canadian I Corps...
The private on the first table had been wounded only slightly. Dr. Howard Johnson of Uniontown, Pa. was rubbing sulfanilamide powder into a hole about the size of a quarter in the boy's left arm. The marine on another table had his face covered. The doctor examining him...