Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Piet Mondrian (Pieter Cornells Mondriaan), 71, Holland-born dean of rectilinear abstract painters; in Manhattan. The gentle, jazz-and-orange-loving hermit, heavily influenced by Pablo Picasso, always said that regular curves made him nervous; deplored the necessary circularity of records and oranges...
Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance, chief of the recently created Central Pacific Command; Vice Admiral J. H. Hoover and his opposite number, Major General Willis Henry Hale, chiefs respectively of landbased Navy and Army aircraft; Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, who directs Spruance's amphibious operations; Marine Major General Holland Smith, boss of the Marine and Army troops that Turner puts ashore...
...Navy's greatest concentration of power, the largest fleet in the world. Working with Spruance is a mixed collection of Navy, Marine, Army and Air Force officers including the Navy's amphibious expert, high-domed Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner; the Marines' amphibious expert, Major General Holland ("Howlin' Mad") Smith...
...tanks, mobile guns, trucks rolled forward again, across the flatlands and icebound marshes. With blank eyes the men watched the burning enemy tanks, the sidings lined with freight cars from France, Poland, Belgium, Holland, the black-and-yellow posts marked Deutschland, planted on Russian soil by the confident Wehrmacht. With blank eyes they saw Nazi posters on charred village walls: an SS soldier hugging a husky Ukrainian woman, with happy children and goats playing in the background. They had seen such women swing from German gallows, had seen the bullet-holed bodies of such children...
Almost from the start, the mission was hell in the heavens. The Germans attacked over Holland's Zuider Zee, never stopped for long. They used tactics and strength which they must have been cautiously hoarding for pre-invasion battles...