Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime Minister Clement Attlee's arrival in Washington to visit the President did not stir the world, nor the U.S., nor even the capital press corps.
In China the U.S. Marines were busy at a traditional chore: carrying out a tidying-up expedition on a foreign shore. The forces involved numbered some 53,-ooo-almost three times the size of the whole Marine Corps in 1939. They were the Third Amphibious Corps, who had been landed...
The Corps' commander, rugged sy-year-old Major General Keller Emrick Rockey. veteran of World War I, Haiti, and Nicaragua, had bossed the 5th Division at Iwo Jima. His China mission, as he saw it: clean out the Japs, secure the ports for the arrival of U.S. ships with...
Shepherd's Sixth. The other arm of Rockey's Corps, the 6th Division, was dumped into Tsingtao* under command of Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., stocky, energetic veteran whose great hobby is swimming under water to spear fish. His 6th had undergone its worst ordeal on Okinawa...
When American Airlines' fast-growing predecessor, American Airways, swallowed T.A.T.'s successor, Southern Air Transport, in 1929, Hardin became American Airways chief pilot and general manager. Nine years later, a member and later chairman of the Air Safety Board of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, he helped write the...