Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: My brother-in-law, Myron E. Brink, sent this letter written in lead pencil to be typed and sent to you. Mr. Brink was President of the Cebu Chamber of Commerce. . . . "After being starved, robbed, and kicked around for three years, we were rescued yesterday from the Los Banos...
Recommended in bills now before the Senate and House Military Affairs Committees were national cemeteries in U.S. territories and 42 states (in addition to the 92 now in existence, where 483,000 veterans of former wars and their nearest kin are buried). The War Department and its grave-keeping Quartermaster...
Through to the Shore. After that, the Japanese on the 4th Division's front were so weakened that the stalemate was broken The 4th got into gear with the 3rd and 5th. The drive for the north shore was speeded from a slow crawl to a slow march. On...
The northern end of the island was within gun sight for Major General Graves B. Erskine's 3rd Division, which had driven a wedge that had almost split the Japs into two pockets. On the flanks the 4th and 5th Divisions were grinding the enemy down.
Until last week it seemed that this might not be so. At the end of the tenth day Major General Graves B. Erskine's hell-for-leather 3rd Division recovered from its long stymie around Motoyama Airfield No. 2, finally broke through for a 1,000-yd. gain straight...