Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these bare bones of history, Author Hay's book gives heroism and humanity...
...marine engineer turned guerilla after his contact with Fascist barbarity, or Vera Inber's "Fragments from a Poem on Besieged Leningrad" are frankly wartime propaganda. But like the other pieces in the issue they are not doctrinaire, but literary blocks in the structure of Russian unity and heroism. Tikhonov's poem, "The Hunter," depicts movingly a type national hero, while Mikhail Zoshchenko's "The Scarecrow" is a bitter-satire on the Nazi mentally...
...young man complete with a crew haircut. Out of Pierre, S.Dak. and the University of Washington, at 25 he is a veteran of naval flying. In the battle of the Coral Sea, flying from the ill-starred Lexington against a Jap carrier, he won the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism and conspicuous devotion to duty." Last week the Navy credited him with a remarkable record in another ocean against another foe: Germany's U-boats...
...ashore discovered, they landed exactly where the Germans expected them to land (see p. 28). Many British and American soldiers were killed. At the center of the 24-mi. beachhead, on the fifth day, the Germans drove within three miles of the sea, almost severing the invasion forces. Great heroism, strong naval and air support and reinforcements saved the landings. Ten days after the landings, three days after the crisis on the beaches had passed, the Eighth Army was arriving in force at the lower end of the Fifth's hard-won position...
...will win." They did. They fought in mud four feet deep, often in continuous, drenching rain (the survivors of one battalion had been in action for 40 days, on 36 of which it rained). And, as in the aerial battles, which preceded the jungle and mountain fighting, individual heroism sustained and inspired the collective resistance, won the final victory...