Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adriatic side of the-front Lieut. General Richard L. McCreery's Eighth Army, soldiers of five different nations in the van, struck from the Senio River across the Santerno and then the Sillaro. The Germans gave ground carefully, holding village strongpoints until the last. By week's end the Eighth had driven farther into the Po basin and was reaching to link up with the Americans below Bologna...
...Ligurian coast Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott's Fifth Army thrust for the old naval-base town of La Spezia. Working a pincers, the 442nd Regiment (Japanese-Americans) and the 473rd Regiment (Negroes) cleared enemy defenses around the famed marble center of Carrara. Italian Partisan units swarmed out of caves and quarries to help the troops capture the village...
...Athens, was a favorite honeymoon spot at the turn of the century. Years ago, Boston's blueblood lawyer Robert Gray Dodge stayed there. Last week, one of its shabby, faded rooms with a wash basin in the corner was the office of his handsome, curly-blonde daughter, Lieut. Colonel Katherine ("Khaki") Dodge, 43, the U.S. Public Health Service's only woman Senior Surgeon on active relief duty...
...cording to age, preservation and reputation of the maker (buildings like St. Peter's in Rome get top billing: three stars). The Venus Fixers approve expenditures for rebuilding (20,000,000 lire in Sicily) and get the restoration started. In charge is the U.S. Army's Lieut. Colonel Ernest Theodore DeWald...
...Europe's "fluid fighting" last week, such rearguard baggage as censors, press camps and corps headquarters jumped about almost as much as the front did, or were left far behind. TIME Correspondent Sidney Olson, who interviewed Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. for last week's cover story, cabled this description of his trials & tribulations...