Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long pull and a tough one. Said one veteran: "At first, all of us were sort of kidding about it, saying 'Well, are you ready to go?' Now the kidding has stopped." Last week, looking at the news pictures as the First Marine Division embarked at San Diego, every veteran was wondering: How soon will they want...
These sounds across the nation were only an industrial murmur. The most reverberating martial noises came from the West Coast. For several days last week, vehicles rolled along Route 101 from the Marines' Camp Pendleton to the Navy's station at San Diego. Forty-five-ton Pershing tanks lumbered across the beach and into LCTs. Buses disgorged men in green camouflaged uniforms who boarded attack transports...
...Easter, Cleveland acquired a big gate attraction, a talented ballplayer whose speed and agility around first base belie his awkward-looking size (6 ft. 4½ in., 235 Ibs.). The 29-year-old Negro was a sensation last year with the San Diego Padres on the West Coast. In less than half a season there, he hit 25 home runs (some while playing with a broken kneecap), but when Cleveland called him up last August after a knee operation, Easter was not ready for the big time...
...Elements (about 6,000 men) of the 1st Marine Division were preparing to board transports at San Diego. Waiting there for shipping was the 1st Marine Air Wing equipped with AD Douglas attack planes and F4U Corsair fighters...
Brigadier General Edward A. Craig, 54, assistant commander of the ist Marine Division, will soon be en route to the Far East from San Diego. Craig, who will lead the Marine ground units last week placed under MacArthur's command, served ably in the Bougainville, Guam and Marianas campaigns during World War II, was decorated for capturing Mount Suribachi, the "roof of Iwo Jima...