Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small-caliber guns put up ack-ack fire. Some of the younger U.S. pilots were puzzled. But old hands and the high command knew that only direct hits by aerial bombs could wipe out the burrowed Japs. A naval officer estimated that 85% to 90% of the enemy garrison were still alive. Unless the Jap evacuated, marines or infantry would still have to fight for Wake...
Last week Enrico Caruso's only daughter was married in Rockville, Md. to Ensign Michael Hunt Murray, U.S.N.R., of Garrison. N.Y. Enrico Caruso's dark-haired, 23-year-old Gloria (by his 1918 marriage to Dorothy Benjamin Caruso, then and now of Manhattan) shares at least one thing in common with the rest of her generation. She is too young to remember her father's voice-the voice which millions have never forgotten. She was less than a year old on that operatic night in Brooklyn when blood suddenly spurted in Enrico Caruso's throat...
...Above Naples the Germans might make a stand behind the Volturno River, where the old Romans posted a garrison and Garibaldi beat the Neapolitans. Above Rome, they might run a barricade along the Apennines, from La Spezia on the Ligurian Sea to Rimini on the Adriatic. Above that barrier the land sloped down to the Po Valley, and beyond towered the Alps. Napoleon once had hacked a way across that rampart of nature, via Tarvis and Klagenfurt, toward Vienna. But it was formidable. Rather than a direct road to Germany, Italy might be a flank for other bridgeheads. > Italy leads...
...Army informed Japan that the ghosts of the men killed on Attu had helped the Kiska garrison in its flight, and were now guarding Japan's own shores. And just as gravely, many an official reported with awe the Emperor's interest in food, coal or steel problems-"an honor beyond expression...
...next day poor A.J. lost his garrison cap, just before visual com., and asked Ensign L.N. Wires to announce the loss over the loud speaker. There was no response. A.J. later found the cap in his belt...