Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cross or other relief organizations all over the Midwest. Some 30,000 families (100,000 people) were homeless at week's end, the Red Cross estimated; 9,663 houses had been destroyed or damaged. The entire population of Dupo-2,073-had to be evacuated by Coast Guardsmen. Women, children and aged were taken from Beardstown...
Berg, his curve ball working to perfection and his change of pace a tantalizing tidbit, set the Guardsmen down with just three hits, no two of which came in the same inning. The first Boston safety came in the fifth inning...
...Crimson baseball team has a return engagement with the Boston Coast Guard this afternoon at 4 o'clock at Soldiers Field. The Guardsmen feature ex-Cleveland Indian catcher Jim Hegan...
...Good Safe Place." A standing joke among Coast Guardsmen is that some recruits join up because "it's a good, safe place to fight the war." That the Coast Guard performs many wartime duties be sides guarding the shoreline was revealed this week in other exploits...
...Coast Guardsmen manned the U.S.S. Wakefield (formerly the Manhattan) when she rescued women & children from under Jap barrages at Singapore. Months later, in the Atlantic, they got off all the soldier and civilian passengers when she caught fire, then towed her blackened hulk to port for repairs...