Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boyish-looking, 24-year-old Aubrey Holland was a medical aid man with the Fifth Army in Italy. During the bloody crossing of the Rapido River, while he was helping the wounded, he was badly hurt himself. The fighting rolled on and Holland lay unattended on the river bank with a shattered arm and leg. He lay there for four days. When medics finally got to him, his feet and one hand were frozen. Doctors amputated both his legs...
...Corps. There comes a time when defenses will no longer yield before fire power, however heavy. That is the time when men on foot must pay for yardage with their lives. That is when the marines are at their greatest. This, said the Fleet Marine Force commander, Lieut. General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, is their toughest fight in 168 years...
...Dawn broke clear on a calm sea black with ships: 800 craft under Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, the high-domed, hard-driving conqueror of Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Tarawa, Kwajalein and Saipan. With Turner on the bridge of his command ship was Lieut. General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, boss of the Fleet Marine Force. Loaded on the surrounding transports were the men of Major General Harry Schmidt's V Amphibious Corps: the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions...
...Holland, as in Belgium, political unrest began in the stomach. The Government organ, Voice of The Netherlands, reported: in Nazi-held Holland. 4,500,000 persons now get daily food rations of 450 to 650 calories-or, roughly, "one-third of what the human body needs to keep alive while doing nothing, one-fifth of what it needs while exerting itself. . . . This is plain famine-stark, inescapable. ... It just means death. It kills...
...Come to think of it, I would like to have Windsor Castle for a summer resort," Kaiser Wilhelm II once casually remarked. His second son Eitel Friedrich chimed in: "And you will let me have the Isle of Man, won't you?" After the Kaiser had fled to Holland, where he sprinkled gold dust on the signature of his abdication in 1918, he was reduced to eating the bitter bread of exile in the curtailed magnificence of House Doorn. But his heart was still in Potsdam. Raged his wife, sickly Kaiserin Augusta-Victoria: "Liebknecht and his harlot, Rosa Luxemburg...