Word: eyewitnesser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bonnie A. Little was a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps at the time of his death, although his new commission had not caught up with him. Eyewitness accounts relayed back to his home in Geneva tell how Captain Little led his platoon of amphibious tractors onto the beach in...
Modest Intentions. Meantime laymen's disillusionment with air power was growing. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart: "It is strange, after reading eyewitness accounts of how Cassino was leveled by the air force, to stand on a hill overlooking the town and see so many...
The two-years-belated shock came in a joint Army-Navy release, based on factual, eyewitness, non-hearsay accounts from Lieut. Colonel William E. Dyess and two others who escaped from Jap imprisonment and torture last April. From their reports, the Army & Navy concluded that of the 22,300 Americans...
A Swiss eyewitness said that the remaining population was being fed chiefly from army field kitchens at street corners. Bombed-out Germans who could get to a police station and register could claim an issue of six cigarets, a packet of sandwiches, 200 marks in emergency cash, new ration cards...
Then, in just 25 minutes, the R.A.F. laid another ghastly wound across its recuperating hulk. Said a Swiss eyewitness: three-fifths of the city now is in ruins, 2,000,000 homeless.