Word: hails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certainly will stand out in my memory more than ever, as it is now my second Armistice Day. The afternoon before planes came over, amidst a hail of machine-gun fire and antiaircraft, and dive-bombed a remaining French warship which apparently had been shelling some of the American forces some distance from the town. The dive-bomb attacks evidently finished her. Some days later I saw her from a distance, down by the stern with a list. The evening of Nov. 10 was an anxious one, for while we had no really definite news it was perfectly clear that...
...Hail, England, Mistress of the Seas...
When other hail the footnote as the page...
...General is frustrated by Brazilian guerrillas in his campaign to open the way for an Axis invasion. In his latest battle the Brazilians destroyed his soldiers' tanks, guns, helmets and even their belt buckles with metal-dissolving pellets, leaving the bewildered Germans unarmed and helpless under a hail of arrows...
...506th Parachute Battalion marched 115 miles through Georgia last week in three days. The battalion slogged through fog, rain, sleet and hail, over soggy fields and concrete highways. They carried full equipment, including machine guns. Some fell out with sore feet. Even they got congratulations from their commander, Colonel Robert Sink. Said he: "When you fell, you fell face forward...