Word: ist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ROSE BOWL-Never any doubt here. Ala scored ist time got ball, kept it up before 93,000. So. Cal got no pts until Ala total was complete, when pass, blocked punt brought 2 tds . . . Ala 34, So. Cal 14. SUGAR BOWL-Okla A&M too big, strong for St. Mary's though Herman Wedemeyer, St. M threat, showed well. Bob Fenimore, Okla threat, showed better . . . Okla Aggies 33, St. Mary's 13. ORANGE BOWL-With score 6-6 and sees left to play, Al Hudson, Miami sub, intercptd pass . . . ran 89 yds to win game . . . Miami...
Communist guerrillas had cut the rail road from the great Kailan coal mines to the port of Chinwangtao. For nine days none of the Kailan coal, which China desperately needs, had moved. U.S. Major General Dewitt Peck, commander of the ist Marine Division, tried the route to Chinwangtao. For two days Communist guerrillas sporadically attacked his train. Near Lwanhsien village, his train was stalled by Communist small-arms fire. General Peck ordered the marines to fire back, while he sat smoking his pipe and cursing. Then he called for a Piper Cub to finish the trip. His superior, Major...
...DENKO ist Lieutenant, A.U.S. (S/SGT.) W. E. GRUNDY Chicago...
Peck's First. With him in Tientsin was the famed ist Division which invaded Guadalcanal, New Britain, Peleliu and suffered its worst casualties at bloody Okinawa. Few if any veterans of those grisly days were still on hand, but the new men were the same kind of businesslike marines. Under Rockey and grey-haired, peppery Major General Dewitt Peck, who commanded the famous 4th Marines at Shanghai before the war, they cleaned up and settled down...
...Like the ist, the 6th was reenforced with artillery, tanks, engineers, pioneers, medicos, service troops. For however long was ordered, they had come to stay-in tidy, professional marine style...