Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For the first time, General Eisenhower broadcast an appeal to the German officer corps: "The end is merely a question of time. . . . We cannot expect the German officer to do anything . . . contrary to his honor or his country's interest. It is in Germany's interest to ... end...
Naval gunfire and air support have been far superior to those anywhere else in the Pacific. A battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Alexander A. ("Archie") Vandegrift Jr. (son of the Marine Corps commandant), said yesterday: "I used to fight with these naval aviators over air support, but I've no...
Lives for Yards. The Japs will lose Iwo Jima to the men of Major General Harry Schmidt's V Amphibious Corps, and we will have airfields within 750 miles of Tokyo. One reason for this is sheer power, including naval and air supremacy, but the ultimate factor in the...
Committee No. 2 was the League of German Officers. It consists of German officers and soldiers captured by the Russians at Stalingrad and elsewhere. Its most publicized leaders were Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, who commanded the German armies at Stalingrad; General Walther von Seydlitz, commander of the German LI...
Kindly, seamy-faced Major General Oscar W. Griswold, commander of the U.S. Sixth Army's XIV Corps, stood in somber triumph last week on a field of horror. After 20 days of battle, Manila's smoking ruins were his.