Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early as March 4, 1942, the Bull (it was "Raider" Halsey then) drove with one carrier, the Enterprise, to within a thousand miles of Tokyo, and sent her planes to bomb tiny Marcus Island. Six weeks later he stood on the same carrier's flag bridge and watched Lieut. Colonel (now Lieut. General) Jimmy Doolittle's ill-fated B-25s fly off the Hornet to carry to Tokyo the first token...
...Grew. Since then the Navy has admitted that 19 ships have been hit by suicide planes, including the carriers Bunker Hill and Saratoga, and one unidentified carrier to which Admiral Mitscher transferred his flag after the Bunker Hill was hit. The destroyer Mohan was announced sunk, the cruiser Nashville and two more destroyers damaged in December. Two ships were admittedly hit in March, seven in April, four in May, one in June. Presumably others among the 80-odd ships hit during the Okinawa battle were victims of suicide pilots. Radio Tokyo says all Jap pilots now are suicidal...
...Captured at the sixth battle of Tobruk." (That flag hung on our wall for weeks until a stenographer in a neighboring building saw it from across the street, warned the F.B.I, that there was a "nest of Nazis" in the TIME & LIFE Building...
There are the snapshots Peter Stackpole picked up on the bloody beach of Saipan ( one shows a smiling, doll-like Japanese child waving the flag of Nippon) -and the stamp collection TIME Senior Editor Sidney Olson took from the knapsack of a Hitler youth who lay dead outside battered Nürnberg( " The Russians had already gone over him pretty thoroughly, but they won't take anything that has the swastika...
...most eyes were on the 200 soldiers. Each of them carried a captured German flag bedecked with captured German medals. Suddenly the massed band stopped blaring. Only hundreds of drums rumbled. As the 200 soldiers approached Lenin's tomb, they lowered the German flags (including Hitler's personal standard) and dragged them over the muddy cobblestones. In front of Lenin's tomb, the soldiers, without turning their heads or breaking step, tossed the flags into...