Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From there Leclerc made his way to London and Africa, organized a French fighting force in the Cameroons. In long, quick strokes over the desert, he harassed the Italians in Fezzan. When Montgomery began his march toward Tripoli, Leclerc moved his force north from Fort Lamy, over 1,200 miles of desert and mountains in 39 days. From Tripoli, he advanced with Montgomery into Tunisia...
Carte Blanche. In Fort Ann, N.Y., Henry Holly mailed back to the U.S. Treasury a signed, blank check, issued to him as disability payment for service in World...
Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, now an infantry instructor at Fort Benning, overstayed a furlough in Pittsburgh by six days, was hailed before a court-martial. The officer-judges sentenced the holder of the Congressional Medal of Honor to: $90 fine, 90 days confinement to camp. Asked Kelly: "Can I go to the movies?" Said the court-martial : Yes, if the movies are in the camp...
...some U.S. ports Italian prisoners do stevedore duty. In Seattle it is done in part by a Negro battalion stationed at Fort Lawton; the paroled Italians work as gardeners and orderlies in the camp. They also have long had the run of the post exchange, and for the Negro troops that, along with other privileges, was just too much. There was open bad feeling, a small scrap last week when the U.S. troops decided the Italians were getting the best of the PX's beer and cigarets...
...madman's hopeless situation: there was no escape. But he was in a seagirt fort, approached only over a narrow bottleneck of land. The Americans had battled past Saint-Malo's ancient walls and towers, past modern pillboxes to this last fort, set 50 feet deep in the granite, crisscrossed with underground tunnels...