Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the first finger of the Allied hand jabbed deepest into the softening Japanese defenses. At its tip were jungle-wise troops of the Chinese 22nd Division under General Lee Tao, who had marched and fought 210 miles through roadless terrain in two months; and U.S. troops seasoned with veterans of Merrill's Marauders, now gathered in an outfit ominously named Mars Task Force. Commanding it was Brigadier General John P. Willey, who had conquered Myitkyina...
Look Homeward, Angel. In Long Beach, Calif., Victor Peterson sued for the custody of his four children, claiming that Mrs. Peterson, fearful lest the coastal regions slide into the sea, had fled with her off spring to the sanctuary of a mountain belonging to an evangelist named Everett Lee...
Gettysburg to Appomattox, by Douglas Southall Freeman, is the third & final volume of Lee's Lieutenants. Its portraits of the able, good-natured men who contributed to Lee's greatness are masterly. Its clear, detailed battle accounts read like chapters of good novels...
Most G.I.s seldom discuss officers except for the juniors with whom they come in contact. Bradley is an exception. They sometimes speak of him as Robert E. Lee's men spoke of their general around the campfires of the Civil War. Bradley's men know that he never forgets them, that he wants to send as many of them home alive and whole...
...Rebel" Smith tells his story of "Sherman's Retreat" through Georgia. "Why, it was another Dunquerque," says the man from the Deep South. When accused of being related to a carpet bagger, Smith was seen gathering his Confederate flag and picture of Robert E. Lee, and heading home...