Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were lined up for morning chow. On the fantail a little group of men had just turned away from burying a sailor who had died, of illness, the day before. On the bridge, men conned the skies with glasses. It was 7 minutes past 7 in the dull dawn...
There were 50 Marines on top of Sugar Loai Hill. They had been ordered to hold the position all night, at any cost. By dawn 46 of them had been killed or wounded by Japanese hand grenades. Then, into the foxhole where the remaining four huddled, the Japs dropped a white phosphorus shell, burning three men to death. The last survivor crawled down to an aid station...
This week the Jap radio underscored the Admiral's words by announcing that a tremendous force of 900 carrier planes was attacking airfields and other installations on Kyushu, Shikoku and Honshu, making 14 strikes between dawn and 2 p.m. Right along with it, Japan was catching the heaviest punches ever thrown by the B-29 Superforts (see below...
...When, in the darkness before dawn on Sept. 1, 1939, the German divisions entered Poland (four weeks later Warsaw fell...
...With the dawn came still heavier fighting. On the east end of the battle line Jap infantrymen came out of their foxholes to attack the 7th and 77th Division fronts. For the first time on Okinawa they brought tanks into action. The Japs poured through 1,500 yards at one place before they were wiped out. Through the morning furious fighting raged until the assault subsided and the Americans struck back over the bodies of 3,000 Japs...