Word: escorts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, during a lull in the Palestine fighting, an armored bus under heavy escort headed south from Jerusalem on a mournful errand; it carried the mothers & fathers of the 35 dead to their funeral. The parents stood dry-eyed and solemn as their sons were buried in a common grave on a hillside overlooking the Valley of Fertility. At dawn next day, the uneasy quiet was broken...
Berg has since infused speed into the Yardling attack. Jim Gabler, John Pankey, and Dave Skinner have all run escort for their taller teammates, Ed Smith, Pat McCormick, and John Lombardy, lending much needed balance to the Crimson advance...
...machine cannon on the island of Peleliu looked out over the Pacific Ocean and noted in his diary that what he saw made him "so furious I could feel the blood pounding in my veins throughout my body." The U.S. Marines had come, and with them a naval escort that stretched as far as the eye could see. After ten days of pounding, the warships and carrier planes ceased fire, and a transport commander said complacently to a Marine colonel: "Everything's done over there. You'll walk in." Replied the colonel: "If you think...
...what Christmas Week was like this year, I toured the holy places. I started at Jerusalem's Old City. Unlike old-time pilgrims, I needed an armed escort of British police. We entered at Jaffa Gate, headed down through the ancient Jewish quarter, where for ten days the Arabs had besieged some 3,500 Jews. Sniping still goes on day & night...
...David M. Kellogg, 34-year-old Seattle veteran who was awarded Russia's Patriotic War Order, First Class, as commander of a U.S. destroyer escort in the North Atlantic, discovered that his medal carried a monthly pension of 20 rubles for life. Fortnight ago he walked into the Soviet consulate in San Francisco, walked out with $462.79, for 26 months' back...