Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus began the homeward journey from Europe of the U.S. dead of World War II. The bodies of the 5,599 men and one woman (an Army nurse) were to be repatriated to each of the 48 states. Mostly they were the fallen of the Aachen campaign and the Battle of the Bulge...
...Francisco this week would come the vanguard of the dead from the Pacific: 2,992 from Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Peleliu and Iwo Jima.* From Africa in a few weeks would begin another funeral procession. Soon every U.S. city and town, almost every crossroads hamlet, would have a fresh reminder of the price of peace...
Bing Crosby looked none too healthy in a photo from the wilds of Alberta, Canada-but it was mostly the usual depressed hat and the unusual beard. Hunter Crosby was dead tired after a day of shooting. His bag thus far: a moose, a bighorn sheep, and a mountain goat...
...Faculty's request, the Law School Association, representing 18,000 alumni, has announced a campaign to raise $100,000 for the book repository, which will serve as a memorial for the School's 200 World War I and II dead. Already the Association's officers, headed by ex-Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, have donated $5,000 to the project...
...aged novel has been unearthed from the shelves of some bankrupt circulating library, its cover has been dusted, and its plot has been transmitted to celluloid. The utterly fantastic doings somehow involve the wife of a Breton fisherman (Garson), who takes up with a nasty friend of her supposedly dead husband. But of course, just as she is about to marry the friend, (after four reels of indecision), the husband shows up and the two men have the customary brawl on the customary cliff-top. You have but one guess who it is that falls into the briny deep...