Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cranberries in America, Bill Fisher and Bill Vandivert in New Delhi have been invited to eat their Indian equivalent with General Ferris-while Teddy White in Chungking will probably get together with the few other American old timers at the Embassy. Harry Zinder may get back from the desert in time to have his Christmas dinner with Jack Belden at Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo where Rommel planned to have his headquarters by now- and I will be surprised if Will Lang and Lincoln Barnett don't have a really royal feast with the American troops in North...
...flight. For three weeks, while General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery cautiously poked at him, Erwin Rommel had crouched in the bottleneck of El Aghéila, holed up. Montgomery had been in no hurry to attack. He had had to bring up supplies across the 700 miles of desert which Rommel had already covered in his retreat from El Alamein. Until he was ready, he had kept Rommel in a state of nervousness with jabs of armored cars and tanks. First clue to his readiness came last week. Heavy artillery began to bellow from behind the British lines. Over...
What happens when the novelty of wearing the uniform wears off? While most girls probably wouldn't desert, we fail to see how their hearts could be in their work...
Perhaps the toughest trainer in the U.S. Army is a wiry little man who carries a full pack and a rifle while marching his troops across stony Oregon desert and who expects his middle-aged staff officers to be as taut-bellied as the hardiest young private. Major General Charles Hunter Gerhardt breaks in new men "gently" by sleeping them in pup tents in the rain, making them swim icy Oregon rivers...
Brigadier General Mark Wayne Clark, up from a lieutenant-colonelcy in two years, announced that the Army would train troops in desert warfare somewhere "west of the Colorado River...