Word: hewitt
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...highest open platform on the bridge of one of the biggest transports stood Vice Admiral Henry Kent Hewitt, commander of the American ships, planner of the American half of the seaborne invasion and the man who had organized American amphibious warfare...
...Admiral Hewitt had worried about plenty of things, but not about the weather. He had worried about the difficulty of accurate landfalls on a strange coast at night; about the virtual impossibility of anything but tactical surprise; about the deviation of compasses when the soldiers with their metal rifles got aboard the assault boats. But by 7 o'clock on the eve of the invasion, the storm was so bad that the Admiral was having to consider ordering the landing craft to stay offshore...
...History 1 Memorial Hall History 6 Emerson D History 65a Harvard 5 History 67a Emerson D History 136a Emerson A Hist. of Religions 13 Emerson A Latin 8 Emerson D Mathematics A1 (see footnote*) Professor Beatley, Sec. 1 New Lect. Hall Professor Coolidge, Sec. 2 New Lect. Hall Mr. Hewitt, Sec. 3 New Lect. Hall Mr. Norris, Sec. 4 New Lect. Hall Mr. Buck, Sec. 5 New Lect. Hall Mathematics 2 I (see footnote*) Dr. Kaplansky Mallinckrodt MB 9 Mathematics 12 Emerson D Mongolian 1a Emerson D Music A Music Bldg. 1 Music B Music Bldg. 2 Philosophy E Emerson...
Feats of the 19th furnish the best evidence to a country suddenly thrown into war that Americans have not lost courage. Captain Hewitt T. ("Shorty") Wheless' 75-mile battle with 18 Jap Zeros was the subject of a Presidential broadcast. Wheless' fellow Texan, Captain Alvin John Henry Mueller, also a winner of the D.S.C., brought his B-17 back with 1,400 bullet holes...
...Casablanca, U.S. warships commanded by Admiral Henry K. Hewitt knocked out a bitterly resisting French cruiser-destroyer force while Navy flyers bombed the 35,000-ton battleship Jean Bart into a blazing hulk. The U.S. fleet moved inshore and soon was heaving shell after shell into the Moroccan coast...