Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they receive highly concentrated basic training. At nearby Pine Camp, where cadets go for summer training, Woody and his classmates served as buck privates in the annual Corps maneuvers, learned their lessons from some of the 2,000-odd veteran officers and noncoms of West Point's permanent detail...
Cheated of a formal inquisition and execution, Himmler's captors let his body lie for two days on the floor where he had fallen. Medical authorities removed the brain, took plaster casts of the skull. Finally, a British Army detail, sworn to secrecy, buried the unembalmed body in a grave on the heath near Lüneburg. There was no coffin, no marking on the grave. The shifting sand would soon obliterate the last sign; there would be no site for a martyr's monument...
...various ways last week the public got behind the drive. In Chicago Musi-comedienne June Havoc auctioned off two pairs of nylons at $1,300 worth of bonds a pair. The three survivors of the six-man detail which posed for the famed flag-raising picture on Iwo Jima - Pfc. Rene Gagnon, Pfc. Ira Hayes and Pharmacist's Mate John Bradley - rode through the rain to inspire the cheering citizens of Boston. In Tampa, a 75-mm. cannon boomed hourly from Plant Park. In Indianapolis, Mayor Robert Tyndall gave "the order of the day": Over the top. Indianapolis. Cheyenne...
Under crossexamination, Germans who had told of Hitler's death twisted their stories, clashed in detail, finally admitted that no one had seen the Fiihrer die. Finally the tale told by a member of! Hitler's personal bodyguard catalyzed the conflicting stories. The bodyguard, an SS Untergruppenfuhrer, last saw Hitler on April 27, in his personal room in the Chancellery...
Said Churchill: "It was only . . . when all the [German] preparations being made on the coasts of France and Holland could be examined in detail . . . that we knew how grave had been the peril. . . . Only just in time did the Allied armies blast the viper in his nest. Otherwise the autumn of 1944 . . . might well have seen London as shattered as Berlin...