Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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JOSEPH R. GRUBB JR. ist Lieutenant, Infantry Fort Benning...
Some of the Germans dove on the bombers with jets open. "They would straighten out," said one U.S. pilot, "and strafe from underneath. One did this trick, and let a rocket go into a Fort of our formation. The Fort disappeared...
...Army court-martial had sentenced the four, who were stationed at Lovell General Hospital, Fort Devens, Mass., to a year at hard labor and dishonorable discharge (TIME, April 2). No one denied that the four had disobeyed an officer, or that the trial had been fair. But on the basis of their testimony that they and other Negro WACs at Lovell had been victims of racial discrimination, the Negro press, Negro and radical leaders started a furious protest, loudly demanded an investigation...
...General Buckner had been born for this job. His father, Simon Bolivar Buckner ST., named for the South American liberator, had served with distinction in the Mexican War and worn a lieutenant general's stars in the Confederate Army. As a brigadier he had been forced to surrender Fort Donelson to his old West Point classmate, U. S. Grant. But he was exchanged, twice promoted, and wound up the war still fighting...
...historian of shady Americana (The Gangs of New York, The French Quarter, The Barbary Coast), associate editor of Collier's magazine, descendant of U.S. Methodism's first Bishop, Francis Asbury; and Edith Snyder Evans, 34, New York City Associated Press reporter; both for the second time; in Fort...