Word: ga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...storm had begun by pounding over Watling Island in the Bahamas-probably the San Salvador which was Christopher Columbus' first landing place-silencing the Government wireless. At Panacea, Fla. five fishermen were drowned when the deep boiled like a pot. Near Moultrie, Ga. a schoolgirl was killed when she stepped on a storm-whipped live wire. At Dinner Key the wind blew 123 miles per hour at the Pan-American Airways base. Houses crumpled, boats swamped, streets flooded. Part of the metal dome of the State Capitol at Tallahassee was torn...
Typical was a group of 166 weather-beaten infantrymen turned out from Fort Benning, Ga.: some drafted men, some regulars, a few National Guardsmen. Many of them were college graduates, most had college training. All had shown qualities of leadership. Leadership was the quality the Army sought most in its new officers. All had had at least six months' training as enlisted soldiers...
Lloyd C. Ahlgren, Danbury, Conn.; George R. August, Whittier, Calif.; Ernest L. Baskin Jr., Sylvester, Ga.; Allan J. Caldwell, Burlington, Vt.; John F. Clark, Lynchburg, Va.; John J. Cooney Jr., Providence, R. I.; George C. Coquillard, South Bend, Ind.; Ray J. Diekemper, Los Angeles, Calif.; John C. Entz, Mesa, Ariz.; Edward H. Frost, University Heights, Ohio; Sargo Giss, Everett, Wash.; George E. Hamilton, River Forest, Ill.; Eugene S. Heckathorn, Indianapolis, Ind.; Herbert W. Hoskins Jr., Fairfield, Conn...
...recipients are James H. Wilson Jr., 2L, of Tifton, Ga., A.B. Emory '40; Mallory R. Smith 2L, of Greenville, S.C., A.B. Furman '39; Irivng J. Helman 3L, of Brookline, Mass., A.B. Harvard '39; and Luther E. Birdzell Jr., 3L, of Washington, D.C., A.B. Chicago...
Shot partly on the 501st's home grounds at Fort Benning, Ga., Parachute Battalion follows the rigorous training of a modern parachutist with documentary nicety. And its shiploads of husky, fully equipped youngsters cascading out of their transports like peas from a pod make first-rate drama...