Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact was driven home first to Lieut. Colonel Byron F. King's battalion. They had come to the ridge after an easy march from their landing places, only to find themselves pinned against a main Japanese defense line, boxed in by artillery fire, their flanks under merciless mortar attack...
...Blood. Then came Lieut. Colonel John G. Cassidy's battalion. In four days of bitter fighting Major General John R. Hodge's XXIV Corps troops won and lost the ridgetop three times. The Japanese met them coming up, popping out of caves and old tombs to hurl grenades and satchel charges-heavy explosives, carried on a handle like a satchel, and usually used to blast fortifications. Japanese artillery fire pounded them while they were on top. Then Japanese infantry charged furiously with fixed bayonets and ousted them...
...Last week off Okinawa Kamikaze planes attacked in groups of two to six. Most of them were shot out of the air before they got close to their targets. One fell into the sea only 200 yards from the amphibious operations flagship carrying Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner and Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner. In one day of flaming air action the Japs lost 118 planes...
...Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger's Eighth Army, busy winning back the Philippine Islands south of Luzon, found time for an errand of mercy. Troops of Major General Jens A. Doe's 41st Division landed on tiny Culion island, just north of Palawan, to bring freedom, food and medical supplies to the ulcerated, miserable inmates of the world's largest leper colony...
...brace of Villa Hügel retainers blocked the door. Strapping (6 ft. 5) Lieut. Colonel Clarence Sagmoen merely drew his Colt 45, and a passage opened...