Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With around 4,000,000 troops safely overseas, the U.S. suffered its worst transport disaster of World War II. Last week the Army announced in a detail-bare communique that 1,000 U.S. soldiers had died in the sinking of an Allied ship in European waters "due to enemy action ... at night in a heavy...
...Montgomery cruised around Britain in high gear last week, visiting camps, inspecting troops, giving forthright pep talks and conferring with field officers who will lead the invasion forces. Monty traveled, as he does everything, with dash and authority. He had a special train, his regular staff, a picked detail of twenty ATS (British WACs) who served as cooks and orderlies...
Group Captain Frank Whittle's jet propulsion patents were published in detail, and thoroughly analyzed, in the January and February 1939, issues of-guess what-Flugsport, the official publication of the German air force...
Death by Overwork. At Cabanatuan Camp, to which most American soldiers were removed after two months, conditions were no better. Prisoners were put to work on roads; those who faltered even for a moment were beaten and clubbed by their guards. Sometimes as many as 75% of a work detail failed to return to camp. Disease touched everyone: beri beri, dysentery, diarrhea, malaria, scurvy, blindness, diphtheria, jaundice and dengue fever. Those who attempted to escape were beaten, kicked and jumped on, then tied to posts in the open sun for two days before being beheaded or shot...
Heading the detail arranging smoker plans is Richard W. Mechem '45, one of he upperclassmen due for Ensign's stripes by the end of February. Mechem's associates have drawn up the traditional series of satirical skits which have in the past been presented in such dignified settings as the Harvard Club of Boston...