Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April 21, 1918. He had been in almost daily aerial combat on the western front for 14 months. His nerves were dangerously taut. Said he: "Milk and brandy were my only food [for two weeks]. ..." That morning he swooped unseen behind an Albatross, bagged the famed, ferocious Red Knight of Germany, Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
...hrer's Headquarters. The German High Command announces: A sub marine commanded by Senior Lieutenant von Billow has sunk in the middle of the North Atlantic the American aircraft carrier Ranger, employed to guard Atlantic convoy routes. The Führer has awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross [of the Iron Cross] to Lieutenant von Bülow, the 234th member of the German armed forces to receive the decoration." That announcement was made April 25, 1943. There must have been some mistake. Last week the Navy Department stated that, since that date, the planes...
...Knight Leads Drive...
Harvard's section of the drive was led by Bertram A. Knight of P.B.H., who presented the Minute Man Flag at Lowell House Wednesday night, while the House committees were headed by Arthur A. Hartman, Stephen D. Becker, and William L. Spront for Lowell, Adams, and Dunster respectively...
Core of the month-long appeal came in a three-day period in the late third week, when Lowell House shot from $2,500 to $5,700 and the other Houses put on smaller spurts. Knight said that the drive has been "watched with great interest because of the lack of outside publicity." No jeeps, battleships, or one-fifty-five-millimeter shells were bought by College civilians--just bonds...