Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon many of Detroit's 400,000 school kids were running about with defense-stamp albums. Next the large chain stores-A. & P., Kroger, Woolworth, Penney, etc.-hung out red, white & blue signs, began selling stamps like cigarets. The Cunningham Drug chain spent $1,600 on newspaper ads, nearly burst with patriotism when daily bond sales in its 125 Michigan stores hit $750. Kroger's eight Lansing stores rang up $80 daily. Last week 12,500 Michigan stores were selling bonds; by mid-September there...
Franklin N. Cunningham, Gloucester, Mass,; Charles D. Davol Jr., Fall River, Mass.; John Driscoll, West Roxbury, Mass,; Alexander R. Early Jr., Baltimore, Md.; Richard B. Fellows, Salem, Mass...
...waters Britain came out much worse than at Greece. The tonnage which Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham lost in the Cretan operation was twelve times as high as that lost off Greece. The horror off Crete was also many times as great-for while most of the damage suffered off Greece was suffered by night, the converse was true off Crete; here the terror was all too visible...
...against time and the Nazis. The hurrying enemy surrounded and captured some 10,000 of these bedraggled men before the British were able to get them off. Crete was lost. It would be hard now to hold Iraq, Trans-Jordan, Palestine and Egypt. The Mediterranean was no longer Admiral Cunningham's Pond. And yet the British were apparently not downhearted. They were confident that Crete was the last place where Germany would have undisputed air superiority. An R.A.F. spokesman in Cairo said: "There is no chance for further German operations like those in Crete." But there still was Cyprus...
...casualty figures; they knew the enemy did not care about losses. They wanted to know: How many live Jerries are in Crete? How long can they hold on with nothing but air-carried supplies and arms? Will our fleet keep seaborne support at a distance? Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, who had long since proved himself a fighting man, did not flinch from his patent duty-to interpose strong forces between Crete and Greece and stop whatever came by sea. But sending his ships into those narrow waters was precisely what the Germans wanted. Dive-bombers went for the fleet...