Word: derring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rundstedt was already one of the Reich's first soldiers. Impersonally affable, yet detached and consciously superior, he was not a man to let other officers call him by his first name or use the familiar Du. He was known far & wide, and with vast respect, as der General...
When the madness passed, Bock went back on the Russian front: he had Rundstedt's old southern sector, and this time knifed through and past Rostov. So did Leeb, in his old Leningrad sector. "Der General" went back to harness, too, and der Führer had honored him with one of the Reich's most important but least thankful commands. In France, at the first, it was quiet and there was much building to do. Now there are more invasion barges on the beaches, more gunfire in the night, and the skies are laced with the bright...
From the front of the elegant, ruthlessly cynical Rundstedt, quiet has departed. Even the soldiers of enemy nations had grudgingly to admit that der General must be pleased. This was what he had been born for. This was the way to win medals and the adulation of other soldiers. This was better than retirement for an old horse that would be restless in pasture. Let the politicians worry about what came after the war. Let the theologians worry about what came after that...
...five: William Ruys, director general of the Rotterdamsche-Lloyd Line; Alexander Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oije, onetime aide-de-camp to Queen Wilhelmina; Eog Count Limbrug Stirum; Christoffel Bennekers, onetime police inspector of Rotterdam; a Rotterdam attorney named Waalde...
...Vance, A. P. '46, Leverett J-25 KIR 2654 Vandam, C. '46, Lowell K-12 ELI 1001 Van Dyke, M. D. '44, Lowell Q-32 ELI 7839 Van Vort, B. E. '44, Winthrop C-43 KIR 2794 Vauclain, C. D. '46, Lowell K-12 KIR 1001 Von der Fogelweide, U.'44, Adams D-21 TRO 4360 W Waer, D. K. '45, Kirkland H-42 TRO 2891 Wagenaar, T. vanR. '45, Adams C-47 KIR 2199 Waldstein, S. S. '45, Eliot F-23 KIR 1371 Walsh, J. '44, Kirkland N-41 TRO 2477 Warburg, F. M. '46, Adams...