Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dixieland tunes played by a U.S. Army band piped the 1st Battalion of Britain's Gloucestershire Regiment ashore at Pusan, Nov. 7, 1950. Last week a U.S. band at the same dock played a solemn "God Save the King" as the 1st Gloucestershires boarded the homeward-bound troopship Empire Fowey. Of the original 600 men & officers who landed at Pusan last year only 120 were left...
...Winston Churchill. Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls is Volume VII in Morison's history of U.S. naval operations in World War II, and marks the halfway mark in the Harvard professor's long literary voyage. "Now that the outward passage is ended," he says comfortably, "we shall be homeward bound shortly." After Volume XIV, tentatively titled The Liquidation of the Japanese Empire, Morison expects to put into port at 71, a reasonable retirement age for a lean Yankee seafarer (who was officially retired this summer as a reserve rear admiral...
Members of the Class of '55 will arrive in Cambridge beginning Monday, September 17, but much of their thoughts will constantly turn homeward as they wonder what their local draft board is going to do with them. Many men are expected to sign up with one of the three ROT programs...
...Winging homeward from the U.S., Ecuador's Galo Plaza stopped off for more state visiting in Mexico and Venezuela...
Flying from Rome to London, Comedian Red Skelton entertained a small but appreciative audience of 54 passengers, including eleven British youngsters homeward bound from the Middle East. The curtain went up when two of the four engines conked out over the Alps. While the third engine sputtered, the fascinated moppets happily watched the red-haired mimic go through 35 minutes of juggling, shadow-boxing and pantomime gags until the plane made an emergency landing in Lyon...