Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commandos!" From the rear, snatches of song floated forward: Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah, Someone's in the kitchen I know-oh-oh, Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah, Strummin' on the old banjo...
...year-old C.P.O is married and has three children. He plans to get back to football "if the war is over soon." but otherwise looks forward to a career of coaching at some high school. "Real improvement" is seen by "Tuck" in the physical condition of the V-12 and civilian students under the program of calisthenics. "My idea of conditioning is to make it fun and make them like it--as long as they get a good workout...
...forward observation post in the south, where the stench of high explosives and of the dead defiled the delicate scent of apple blossoms, leathery, bullet-headed Marshal Ivan Konev last week briefed his commanders. He spoke of the new power of the Red Air Force and of its first function: close, devoted support of troops on the ground. Almost as he spoke, swarms of Stormomks skimmed over the apple trees to blast the German troops, gun positions and tanks...
Moscow did not say where Novikov was last week-but he was probably steaming around, as usual, from one forward airfield to another, watching his airmen, shooting the breeze with them, cheering them on. If he had been able to do as he pleased, 42-year-old Marshal Novikov would doubtless have been flying combat missions himself. But his friend Joseph...
While advance elements pushed rapidly forward, ahead of schedule, with casualties running at the same rate as on Saipan (150 dead & missing each day), the Army's 77th ("Statue of Liberty") Division was landed in support of the marines. The Japs quickly gathered their strength and Loyal U.S. nationals, but not citizens. counterattacked on both sectors, mainly at night, but were beaten back. At the end of four days Orote with its airstrip was cut off; several villages had been occupied; the once-sleepy capital, Agafia, shattered by shellfire, was sleepless but expectant...