Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the 1st was withdrawn for rest and reorganization. It went back into battle in New Britain. But its bloodiest job was still to come. In the early fall of 1944, under the late Major General William H. Rupertus, its men waded ashore from landing craft on Peleliu in the Palau Islands. On Bloody Nose Ridge in caves which were the "incarnate evil of this war," the Japs made their last stand. In stifling heat at least one regiment of the ist took as high as 60% casualties. The 81st Infantry Division ("Wildcat") moved in to relieve them. In three...
...which put in at Weymouth harbor, in southern England, with ten unfired torpedoes aboard. Soon others were moving to English and Scottish ports; two came in to Gibraltar. The first surrender in the western Atlantic occurred when a patrolling R.C.A.F. Liberator spotted a U-boat and summoned surface craft to bring it in to Shelburne...
After five years in the German Reich, Winston Churchill's "dear Channel Islands" were back in the British Empire last week. The Germans had surrendered. Cheering crowds lined the harbor of St. Peter Port, the port of Guernsey, to greet the British battalions. Then, out of an assault craft stepped an austere, black-clad man. On his head was a black bowler. In one hand he held a tightly rolled umbrella. Under one arm he hugged a black G.R. (a dispatch case with a George Rex imprint). At the first sight since 1940 of a typical London civil servant...
Down the island's coasts, to start the action, came Japanese infantrymen in landing craft. Some marines came out of the forward areas, and 96th Division units moved up from their rest area to meet the threat...
...pulses, fits the medicine to the patient's needs. And some Chinese medicines have panned out by Western standards (e.g., "ma-huang," known in America as ephedrine, a drug which constricts blood vessels). But Dr. Chang is an exception: in the hands of most village practitioners, the native craft has degenerated into superstitious mumbo jumbo...