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...first wave of the 3rd Marine Division (part of the Third Am phibious Corps under Major General Roy Stanley Geiger, USMC) hit the beach between Adelup Point and Asan, north of Orote. Eighteen waves followed them with triphammer precision...
When World War I came, Cunningham headed a Marine air force of five officers, 30 enlisted men. Among them was Roy S. Geiger (now a major general), who commanded the first Marines to fly in France...
Plain Civilian. In Spokane, Harvey Churchill, truck driver at the Army air base at Geiger Field, took no chances on having his civilian status misunderstood...
...tiny tubes, an inch and a quarter long, had been thrown out with a trayful of dressings. The search built up gradually. Staff members, using a Geiger-Müller Counter (an instrument for detecting radioactive rays), successively poked into the incinerator, the laundry, the garbage, wastepaper baskets, the hospital floors, roofs, foundations. No luck...
...hospital, thoroughly alarmed, called a council of its whole biophysical staff, insurance investigators, city engineers. Soon they were in full cry through the town, taking Geiger-Müller soundings in doctors', nurses' and patients' homes, the city dumps, the city hog farm, the sewers. The hospital staff began to think up desperately ingenious tactics. New manholes were opened, miles of sewer explored. Since water screens radium rays, the searchers debated draining the sewers or dragging sensitive film enclosed in a rubber hose through the water...