Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enclosing a copy of a section of a letter written ... by Lieut. Jeanne R. Moore, 48th Field Hospital...
Every month 850 new boots excitedly arrived in The Bronx to have the symbol of their new responsibility-a Mainbocher-designed hat-clapped on their heads and to buckle down to learning their duty. After six weeks' schooling under the piercing blue eyes of Lieut. Commander Elizabeth Reynard, who once taught English literature at Barnard, they were ready for duty...
Feint & Wheel. Lieut. General William Simpson's Ninth Army feinted at Cologne, which lies on the Rhine's west bank and around which the Nazis had organized their strongest perimeter defense. Then, instead of crossing the Erft, the Ninth (six infantry and three armored divisions) wheeled north. The move appeared to achieve some tactical surprise. Big industrial towns fell like ripe fruit: München-Gladbach, Krefeld, Rheydt (birthplace of Propagandist Paul Joseph Goebbels). Krefeld, with a peacetime population of 170,000, surpassed Aachen as the biggest prize yet in the west...
Blood, History. Lieut. General Courtney Hodges' First Army, which aimed its main attack at Cologne, had slower going than the Ninth. The terrain was rougher and the resistance tougher. The First's men ran into counterattacks by two enemy armored divisions. Nevertheless they reached the Rhine two miles north of Cologne, and several divisions took up positions around the city, while heavy shellfire crashed into it. The 10th Infantry and 3rd Armored Divisions were the first outfits to break into the city limits...
South of Manila, 11th Division paratroopers and amphibious forces struck suddenly for the prison camp at Los Baños, 25 miles behind the Japanese lines. They caught the darkly sinister commandant, Lieut. Konishi, lining up his charges for morning roll call. They killed the lieutenant and his 243 guards, rescued 2,146 sick and starving civilian internees...