Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while, the young gallant sailors and marines and soldiers are dying in the Pacific, and in Ireland the boys wait with the realization that they may be next. And we in the outposts who feel guilty because we are so far from the actual fighting, we sit and rot in stinking, malarial jungles and have time to think-and my mind becomes corroded with what I read. Those boys who are about to die, those who may be maimed, those who may live a lingering death with tropical disease, they ask so little. They will fight...
...Second day lying on rocks, chewing grass and reeds, praying a great deal. Getting so weak. Hardly any hope now. Watched vainly all day for a plane. . . . Looks like I shall die here soon...
...third graduate to die in action is Edmund Billings '19. Serving as a lieutcommander, he also lost his life in action...
...ferryboat approached the landing stage, Victoria confessed: "You know me, always a little frightened to get out. I've already been wounded twice, once very seriously. But I don't believe I'll die yet because I haven't begun to live...
...largest force of Marines ever to engage in landing operations" was learning what others had learned before, in the Philippines, in Java, in New Guinea: the stubborn, wily Jap means to win or to die. Last week came details of the Japs' most pressing attack on the Solomons...