Word: cruz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. On Oct. 25-26 U.S. carrier forces sank two Jap destroyers, damaged two carriers, three heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, one destroyer, two battleships. The Japs sank an as yet unidentified U.S. carrier, a destroyer, a tug and a patrol boat. (The carrier Wasp was lost in an earlier action...
...from the southeast, so that there were no waves pounding on the beach. But now, with the rainy season, the prevailing wind was beginning to haul around to the exact opposite quarter, so that rough water would hamper beach landings. It was imperative to reach out and capture Point Cruz, which sticks out like a miniature Florida into Sealark Channel. Under the lee of Point Cruz landings could be safely made, whatever the wind...
...Marines reached, and at week's end they had captured 15 enemy guns and Point Cruz...
...heavy-shouldered, with a grey mustache and grey hair. He limps badly from an old motorcycle accident, walks with two canes and is happiest on horseback. So are his handsome, brilliant wife and six children -three sons and three daughters-all of whom now live in the Bernanos manor, Cruz das Almas...
Conspiracy. Three days later the U.S. got a sudden reminder of its careless prewar past, when the Bund was only a joke. In the tiny fishing village of Boca del Rio, six miles south of Mexico's steamy Vera Cruz, Mexican police nabbed swarthy Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, onetime leader of the German-American Bund, where he succeeded Fritz Kuhn. Wilhelm Kunze had lived quietly in a small hotel, had bought a launch for an escape by sea. Hustled back to the U.S., he awaits trial on a charge of having conspired to send military information to Germany and Japan...