Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ship crashed 20 yards from the inspection party and skidded into a ditch, scraping the bombs along the rough ground. Among the brass hats who hit the dirt and hugged it were Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham and Air Vice Marshal Harry Broadhurst. Said the philosophical pilot, emerging from the wreckage...
...about it. And the third is fallacious because Europe's war is not a civil war-the Germans rebelled not against an established European authority, but against a pattern of European life. Furthermore, the Allies impede rather than forward their aims by creating a feeling of last-ditch desperation among all Germans...
Desperate, Hopeless, Suicidal. The battle in Rebellion in the Backlands is the story of a desperate, last-ditch, hopeless, outnumbered defense of a handful of backwoodsmen against the army. The rebels were fanatics, maddened, suicidal, skillful, soldiers in a holy war, throwing away their lives and dying stoically, silently...
...Netherlands East Indies, a line which passes through Palau and Yap, strong bases 470 and 750 miles off the coast of the Philippines. Sooner or later the U.S. would be in a position to strike at that line. It is there that the Jap fleet may make its last-ditch defense, when the U.S. fleet is 4,000 miles from Pearl Harbor...
...Child Is Born. The sky had clouded over. It grew colder. Major Bill Rosson, of Eugene, Ore., whose men were not yet committed, came over the edge of the ditch. He sat down and bubbled: "We just pulled into that haystack ahead at 3 a.m. when an old woman in the farmhouse started having a baby. Doc Rhodes delivered the brat. He weighed about seven pounds-a nice kid. The Italians wanted Doc to name the kid and Doc decided to name him after me. We got in an interpreter and named him 'Guglielmo.' That...