Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boyish-looking, 24-year-old Aubrey Holland was a medical aid man with the Fifth Army in Italy. During the bloody crossing of the Rapido River, while he was helping the wounded, he was badly hurt himself. The fighting rolled on and Holland lay unattended on the river bank with a shattered arm and leg. He lay there for four days. When medics finally got to him, his feet and one hand were frozen. Doctors amputated both his legs...
Northward in the Ryukyus, the ladder of islands stretching from Formosa to Japan, steamed Admiral Raymond A. Spruance's Fifth Fleet, working in small units, striking here, there, everywhere. In the southern Ryukyus the British Pacific Fleet, working with U.S. Pacific forces for the first time, struck at the Sakishima island group...
...General got his prayer; it was printed on thousands of small cards with Patton's Christmas greeting on the reverse side. On the fifth day of rain and Rundstedt it was distributed to the troops. On the sixth day the sun shone, and the Third proceeded to its warlike harvest...
...Japan's home waters Nimitz sent his mighty Fifth Fleet, under Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. The carriers cruised (by Jap admission) within 60 miles of Shikoku. Still the enemy fleet skulked in its bases...
Full Houses. In Stockholm, Sweden, a mother who had just given birth to her fifth child talked with two wardmates who had each had twins, discovered that all five children had the same father. In a Chattanooga tax office, a woman claimed five dependent children, "Two by my first husband, two by my second, and one by myself...