Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardly more than a creek in summer, the Roer was now swollen by rain. The Germans increased the flood by blowing dams and opening sluice gates, until the shallow brown water in one place spread almost a mile across the plain. Lieut. General William ("Texas Bill") Simpson's Ninth Army inched painfully forward until it held a 20-mile stretch on the west bank. On his right, Courtney Hodges' First Army had to cross a smaller stream, the Inde, before it could come up to the Roer. The Germans fought like wild men for the Inde also. Driven...
...Lieut. General George S. Patton's hard-hitting Third Army had come up to the Saar area in a series of drives which the enemy furiously tried to check. The Germans spent men prodigally in counterattacks. It was clear they intended to fight for every inch of the Saar, as they had for every foot of its approaches...
...week" at the plant, had no set duties. Coupled with this was the fact, suspicious to the committee, that Hurley got the job just before a $2,000,000 loan and just after several million dollars in war contracts had gone to the company. The committee noted that Lieut. Colonel Heller was at the time attached to the office in charge of contracts and loans in the area. This was enough to cause the Senate to hold up approval until it could probe deeper in its own hearings...
...picture is perhaps farthest from conviction in its rather overwritten love scenes, though these are played with unusual heart and simplicity by Van Johnson (as Lieut. Ted Lawson) and a talented, sensitive newcomer, Celia Thaxter (as Mrs. Lawson). It is best in its flying scenes-above all in an ambitious sequence which purports to take a low-flying bomber all the way from the deck of the Hornet to the roofs of Tokyo...
...Lieut. Lawson and his crew, the raid ends in wreckage and agony on the China coast. Guerrillas help the broken men inland. Chinese doctors do all they can with heartbreakingly scanty medical supplies. Gangrene develops in Ted Lawson's leg; by the time an American doctor reaches him, there is nothing to do but take it off. In a shot which M.G.M. had the creditable courage to leave in the picture, despite preview complaints, two nurses carry the grim weight of the leg away down a corridor...