Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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All summer long the Japanese naval high command, reshuffled after the smashing defeat in the First Battle of the Philippine Sea, had planned for the next inevitable meeting with the U.S. Fleet. The blow must be struck when the U.S. amphibious forces entered the last island defense line, Japan-Ryukyus...
The Marshall Way. In early 1941, George Marshall picked Courtney Hodges as Chief of Infantry. The man who could not make West Point's grade became a major general. Hodges had proved to Marshall that his Army-trained mind was not stereotyped, that he was quick to grasp ideas...
In Omsk Josip Broz saw the mass execution of 1,600 striking railroad workers by Tsarist Admiral Kolchak. When the Red Army reached Omsk, Josip Broz joined up. The young Croat who didn't want to fight for the Habsburgs fought through the hard, bitter years of Russia'...
But political criminality is in part an accident of place. The Germans were also gloating over two "criminals" last week. They were Giuseppe Togliatti, brother of Italy's No. 1 Communist, Palmiro Togliatti, and Mario Badoglio, son of Marshal Badoglio. The Germans threatened to kill them (and 38 others...
*Execution by shooting a seated man in the back is an old Fascist custom.