Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 5-Lieut. Matsumai came to our dugout saying, "As long as I'm going to die, I want to die with the pharmacist's section." Also: "If this is going to be our grave let us make it clean." We attended to cleaning up the area. The furious assault of the enemy commenced. . . . Two men pathetically committed suicide due to severe wounds. The lieutenant and the pharmacist section bade farewell and promised to meet at the Yasukumi Shrine after death. I, with Lieut. Yamaguchi, was absorbed into the command section and was very happy...
...military spokesmen are Admiral Konstantin Rodionov and a Red Army political expert, Lieut. General Adrian Vasiliev, who now heads the Soviet military mission in Britain...
Preliminary landings were made on several tiny islands west of Okinawa-in the Kerama Rhetto, and, the Japs said, also on Mae, Kamiyama. Then, at 8:30 on Easter Sunday morning, the Okinawa invasion was launched. After a ferocious preparatory bombardment, Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. sent the seasoned troops of his new Tenth Army swarming ashore. Marines and soldiers fought side by side in this army, as they had in World War I's famed 2nd Division. Comprising the army were Major General John R. Hodge's XXIV Army Corps and Major General Roy S. Geiger...
...always came back to Baguio. There Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the Japanese commander, stood for the final Philippines battle...
Arms Around the Ruhr. The Ruhr encirclement-major prize in a week of blue ribbon advances-was a product of two armies. Lieut. General William H. Simpson's U.S. Ninth (under the tactical direction of Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery) threw one arm around the top. Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army (under General Omar N. Bradley's Twelfth Army Group) turned north, tore through the last German defenses to wrap the other arm. The Ninth and the First shook hands at a street corner in the little town of Lippstadt on Easter Sunday...