Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end there were other great events: the flag-raising on Corregidor, the renewed air blows at Tokyo, and the battering push toward the plain of Cologne (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). But Iwo held top place in the minds and hearts of Americans. Henceforth, Iwo would be a place name in U.S. history to rank with Valley Forge, Gettysburg and Tarawa. Few in this generation would ever forget Iwo's shifting black sands, or the mind's images of charging marines, or the sculptured picture of Old Glory rising atop Mount Suribachi...
Mitscher, the wizened little man in the baseball cap, was now flying his flag on the reborn Yorktown. (Soon it would have the three stars of a vice admiral.) Oliver Jensen, after a tour of duty in the Atlantic chasing submarines, went aboard to put together the story of how the U.S. carrier fleet, puny and crippled in 1942, had become the most mobile and most lethal weapon of 20th-century warfare...
...Republican members, Franklin Roosevelt did not pick, as he might have, the ranking minority member of the Foreign Relations Committee (Hiram Johnson), nor the titular leader of the party (Governor Dewey). He chose Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg and Commander Harold E. Stassen, ex-Governor of Minnesota, flag secretary to famed Admiral "Bull" Halsey...
They tried to forget their blistered feet, their racking pains, their sores, their ills. Some knew they were living skeletons of men. Some were still filled with unbelief. They caught sight of an American flag and Staff Sergeant Clinton Goodbla openly wept...
...flag flew over Manila again and with it MacArthur had brought America. In the second great drama that had spread across the Philippine stage in three years, his cast of characters was a cross section of the U.S.-leathery professional fighters who had soldiered in the islands before, bronzed youngsters called by the draft from Midwest farms, sunburnt youngsters from factory and school...