Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"As midnight approached, our skipper decided that the men below might be wanting rest. He ordered the squawkbox silenced. A man telling me about that decision next day said: 'They left us with Jap torpedo planes closing in. We waited for word and waited. The uncertainty was killing. . . '...
Was It Good Politics? In spite of the most careful Gallup polls or the sharpest Senatorial calculations, no man could say for certain how a majority of U.S. soldiers would vote next year. No Senator was any too happy at the thought of ten million decisive, unpredictable votes swamping the...
The Accused Brother. In Ohio a man was accused of murdering his brother, whose skeleton was dug up several years after his disappearance. Professor Krogman readily identified the skeleton as that of the missing man. Then the police asked him a harder question: Could he verify or refute the survivor...
On the fringes of Empress Augusta Bay U.S. marines and soldiers killed more Japs, expanded their positions. But the week's most spectacular killing of Japs in the Solomons theater took place many miles from Bougainville's steaming, hotbox jungle.
When the Wehrmacht retreats, the partisans retreat with it-harassing, dynamiting, killing, raiding villages and towns, ambushing supply columns, cutting telegraph lines. This war of stealth is not entirely haphazard; a thoroughly organized Central Staff of the Partisan Movement coordinates attack, and keeps in touch with the many "armies," partly...