Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...direct hits with heavy shells or bombs. Often a 2,000-lb. bomb, striking within a few feet of a pillbox and digging a 15-ft. hole, merely threw more sand on top of the Jap fortifications. Surveying Betio's defenses after the battle, Marine Major General Holland ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, chunky, bespectacled commander of amphibious operations, said: "It looks beyond the realm of human possibility that this place could have been taken...
...second day of the Marines' landing, while the struggle for Tarawa was still nip-&-tuck, two seasoned British Empire servants had come ashore: Lieut. Colonel Vivian Fox-Strangways, India-born, Africa-trained, Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony; and Major Francis G. I. Holland, Director of Education among the 27,000 Gilbertese. In his kit Major Holland carried a British flag...
...weekends at his house at Holland-on-Sea, in Essex, where he entertains friends by cooking a saucy chafing-dish concoction he calls "Steak Diane." Few besides himself can really stand it. He has a wife and four children, including twins. His oldest boy, Michael, only 16, recently became head of the London Daily Mail's Liverpool bureau. Say British newsmen: an inkling of the same type...
Leader in Danger. Most startling and circumstantial indication of potential trouble in Germany was a kind of pastoral letter, signed by Erich Koch, Nazi Gauleiter for East Prussia, and apparently circulated among party leaders of the district. A copy of the letter, smuggled out through Holland and vouched for by the Netherlands authorities, declared...
...assignment has twice taken her back to Europe's capitals-to London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Prague and Vienna. She was in Germany during the frantic days just before Munich when the Czechs were mobilizing and France was calling up her reserves-crossed five miles of mined border into Holland en route to Britain - there heard Chamberlain defend before the House of Commons his tragic effort "to keep peace in our time" while his countrymen were feverishly digging air raid shelters and experimenting with barrage balloons. That same year she visited Canada to meet the Dominion's key officials...