Word: daybreaks
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...formed a 'suicide antisniper' unit with 84 volunteers to eliminate 300 enemy snipers who had infiltrated behind the American lines. . . . The unit cleaned up one sector of the sniper area every morning between daybreak and 8:30. They killed at least 250 and also wiped out a number of Japanese machine-gunners with hand grenades...
Church. In 1775 George Washington, before taking command of the nation's first army, prayed in his white pew in Christ Church, Alexandria, Va. Before his decision to take command of the Virginia forces, Robert E. Lee prayed there in 1861. In Alexandria, at daybreak Thursday, the balding, vigorous, 34-year-old rector, the Rev. Edward Randolph Welles, summoned eight young men of the parish, gave them a Secret-Service-combed list of 250 parishioners' names, admission cards...
...half-light of the equatorial daybreak, a U.S. cruiser sighted a vessel about eleven miles away. The cruiser signaled by searchlight. There was no answer-first suspicion...
...acted as chief of Richelieu's secret service." With Catholic secret agents and Huguenot traitors, in the flooded summerhouse, the friar would sit "into the small hours, listening to their reports and giving them instructions. Then, dismissing them with their wages, he would lie down to sleep. Before daybreak he was up again and on his knees...
...Since daybreak the Reconnaissance Troop had been pushing north at a steady 30 m.p.h. Two hours behind them the rest of the division-infantry, artillery, engineers and miscellaneous outfits-were pounding along at the standard speed. Here was a chance for a two-hour rest. The division commander, Major General Lloyd R. Fredendall, had ordered the troop to wait for the division north of Abbeville, go on into Fort Benning, Ga., in tight column...