Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first with his top naval chiefs, British Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay and U.S. Rear Admiral Alan Kirk. Then Ground Forces Commander General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery came aboard, in his favorite battle dress of fleece-lined jacket and corduroy trousers. After Monty had made his report he swung down a rope ladder to his launch, and looked up again, sharp-nosed, grinning, jaunty. Looking down at the great little soldier who, more than anyone, now carried the fate of the invasion in his thin hands, "Ike" gave him a thumbs-up and shouted: "Good luck...
Admirals Harold Stark and Alan Kirk, Generals Carl Spaatz and James Doolittle were busy making history on the morning of June 6. While their planes bombed German communications and their ships took U.S. soldiers to Normandy, their wives saw service (see cut) on radio's far-flung Invasion Day front...
...coast, wrapped themselves in smoke screens and hurled steel from 640 guns. They arrived in two divisions. On the east they were British and Canadian vessels under the command of Rear Admiral Sir Philip Vian. On the west they were U.S., under the command of Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk. Never before, not at Tarawa or Kwajalein or Salerno, had a target been subjected to such overwhelming bombardment from...
Georgie Auld brings his two vocalists, Kirk Wood and Kay Little, and the committee expects to dig up some nice surprises for intermissions. High punch will be served at 11 o'clock or there-abouts in the back room...
...most heavily on sunny General Dwight David Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander, his brilliant, pipe-smoking deputy, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, on airmen like Britain's Leigh-Mallory and the U.S.'s "Tooey" Spaatz, on seamen like Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey and U.S. Rear Admiral Alan Kirk. And a special weight pressed on two of their top subordinates: Cromwellian General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, and Lincolnesque Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, A.U.S...