Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Henry D. G. Crerar's Canadians were closing on Emden and Lieut. General Sir Miles C. Dempsey's British shelled Bremen and Hamburg at close range. The German Navy, however, did not fight. The admiral commanding the German North Sea naval district headquarters at Buxtehude surrendered to Dempsey's 11th Armored Division, which captured 500 women auxiliaries, in bell-bottomed trousers and coats of navy blue. The 11th also captured a circus, fully "operational" except for two wounded bears...
...Nazi troops, who had fought with fanatical skill through the long winter months, broke suddenly as General Mark Clark sent his armies forward. Down from the mountains came Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott's Fifth Army. Its leading divisions wheeled east toward Bologna. Lieut. General Richard L. McCreery's Eighth Army drove up from the Adriatic coast, blocked escape routes from Bologna and sent a column west for the city...
...Okinawa, pilots of the 2nd Marine Air Wing took off to intercept a Japanese attacking force. Three of them-Major George C. Axtell Jr., of Baden, Pa., Major Jefferson Davis Dorrah, Hood River, Ore., and First Lieut. Jeremiah J. O'Keefe, Biloxi, Miss.-were flying into their first combat. When they landed again, all three were aces. Their joint score: 16 Japs shot down, two probables...
...yard battleline across southern Okinawa had not changed position in 13 days. Ahead lay a Japanese army 50,000 strong, entrenched on rows of spiny ridges, each one a maze of log bunkers, concrete pillboxes, caves and tunnels. Patiently the Tenth Army's Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. had waited until the Navy built up his supply dumps. Then he was ready...
...battle for central Burma was won. Lieut. General Sir William Slim's British and Indian troops had a notable victory. Their Mandalay-Meiktila campaign (TIME, March 19) had broken seven Japanese divisions in what was, by official description, "a merry slaughter." Last week the British Fourteenth Army moved ahead for a swift cleanup of all Burma...