Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The battle was being won slowly, by killing Japs. Some 48,000 out of the original defense force (80,000 to 85,000) had been put out of action. U.S. casualties were also high-more than 30,000 of whom 8,000 were dead or missing-but the U.S. units...
The strangest victim of the revolt was the Algerian Communist Party. Like the French Communist Party last spring (TIME, Feb. 12), the Algerian Communists suddenly abandoned their traditional anti-imperialism, took a stand against the natives (presumably, Communists want to keep intact the French Empire which they may one day...
Then the night bombers struck. Antiaircraft guns filled the sky with arching tracer fire as the planes came in to hit the U.S.-held Yonton airstrip. Some of the bombs caused damage; one hit a hospital, killing twelve people.
Several thousand Americans and Australians observed V-E day by killing Japanese soldiers in such places as Okinawa, the Philippines, Tarakan. To them the symbol V-E did not exactly spell victory. It spelt something like this: now we can get full power for our war; now we can win...
But to Republican committee members, wistfully talking of high-tariff prosperity and solidly opposed to further reductions, Henry Wallace looked like a symbol of their discontent. They quizzed him about everything from killing pigs to full em ployment. To Minnesota's finance-minded Harold Knutson he looked like the...