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Thus Colonel Oliver Prince Smith, commanding the 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division, described the dawn of his first battle in World War II. His naval escort consisted of six little PT boats mounting nothing stronger than 20-mm. guns. Smith improvised his own artillery preparation by firing the guns of his tanks while they were still offshore in the assault craft. Since air support from Army planes failed to arrive, Smith's air support consisted of one Piper cub which dropped eight hand grenades behind the enemy beach. In spite of these crudities, the Willaumez operation...
...Post, all wrapped up in a single omnibus entitled Parade's End. Readers will also have a chance of being in on the making of a popular literary reputation, for Ford's publisher has spared no pains to provide his forgotten man with a general's escort of trumpeters: "the great English novelist of his time" (Allen Tate); "no novelist of this century more likely to live" (Graham Greene); "a veritable Kanchenjunga* among the current molehills" (Herschel Brickell...
...Brazilian warships took part in the Normandy landings, helped escort transports carrying the Brazilian Expeditionary Force to the Italian front. Four ships and over 500 men were lost. Many of the casualties were suffered when the cruiser Baia sank in 1945, probably as the result of striking a floating mine...
...also made Harry Truman as sore as a hoptoad in a thumbtack factory by suggesting in 1948 that the Democrats ought to get a better presidential candidate. After Truman was nominated, O'Dwyer gave him the biggest motorcycle escort ever assembled in New York, but the President, though virtually deafened by sirens, did not forgive...
...Margaret's escort at the Goodwood ball this year and companion during the Goodwood races, 26-year-old Billy Wallace could claim to be a close rival of Johnny's. Moreover, Billy represented the modern set, and was rated, according to one arbiter of London society, an "amusing, smart, gay companion with American connections" (after his father's death in 1941, his mother married American Journalist Herbert Agar). Gossips felt that Billy might appeal more to Margaret's volatile character than "quiet and friendly" Dalkeith, who is bored by nightclubs...