Word: hooded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Okinawa, pilots of the 2nd Marine Air Wing took off to intercept a Japanese attacking force. Three of them-Major George C. Axtell Jr., of Baden, Pa., Major Jefferson Davis Dorrah, Hood River, Ore., and First Lieut. Jeremiah J. O'Keefe, Biloxi, Miss.-were flying into their first combat. When they landed again, all three were aces. Their joint score: 16 Japs shot down, two probables...
...heave which Churchill had predicted would end the struggle quickly. In their expanding sectors east of the Rhine, the Americans were speedily turning to fluid movement. After a surprise crossing, Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr.'s Third Army was on the loose (see below). Lieut. General William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army had slashed a quick opening, 'after its crossings downriver from Duisburg, and cut a bypassing path north of the Ruhr Valley's complex of industrial cities. Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' First Army had begun to burst the seams of its beefed...
...last week, after digesting some strong hints that their charter might be in danger, Hood River's legionnaires finally voted to restore 15 of trie 16 names...
Relieved, National Commander Edward N. Scheiberling whipped out a press release: ". . . source of gratification to the American Legion everywhere . . . sound sense of American fair play. . . ." Said the New York Times, "The Hood River Post is to be congratulated on having the courage to admit its mistake...
...Hood River, still as anti-Japanese as ever, mouthed a rumor-white servicemen would demand the removal of their names if those of the Japanese-Americans went back. At week's end the honor roll was still bare of Nisei names...