Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the night the train puffed through the Alleghenies. In the morning, Corporal Harold Cyr, 23, of Hartford, Conn., explained why he hadn't slept: "I just lay there all night grinning...
...thought we had seen everything in the line of Jap military suicides by the time the last charge of the Japs had been beaten off. But we hadn't. Here was something different. During mopping-up operations a detachment of marines on amphibious tractors saw seven Japanese off-shore on a coral reef and drove out to get them. As the amphtracks approached, six of the Japs knelt down on the reef. Then the seventh, apparently an officer, drew a sword and began methodically to hack at the necks of his men. Four heads had rolled into...
Step Three. "Somebody go get a four-block charge of TNT," said the marine sergeant, who hadn't put much faith in his linguist's coaxing ability in the first place. At this point an armored bulldozer, piloted by a young Seabee, rumbled through the underbrush. The sergeant explained the situation to him. The bulldozer man drove his blade into the earth and started to push dirt from the ground level into the quarry where it fell across the mouth of the cave...
...Father Hagen and the others tied white rags on long poles and waved them over their heads, shouting 'Americans, Americans here!' The soldiers kept coming forward as though they hadn't heard...
...Colonel J. W. G. Stephens [then chief of Depot Operations] was stunned. Why hadn't he thought of it? ... Turning to his secretary he barked: 'Get the president of the Scott Tissue company...