Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger, asked by Japanese reporters to summarize his military career, boiled it down to a nine-word order to an interpreter: "Tell them I fought from Buna to the Philippines...
...Showmen Lieut. General James H. Doolittle, who was quite a showman himself in his earlier air-race days, braved the hazards of an Olsen & Johnson show in Chicago, did all right...
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, according to a now-it-can-be-told story, bamboozled Axis spies with a double, Lieut. Clifton James, peacetime actor. The double made a noisy departure for Africa, got a big official welcome in Algiers, set the spies to reporting the Marshal's absence from his invasion base just before Dday...
...Married. Lieut. Hal Surface Jr., 31, prewar tennist of first-ten rank, lately back from three years' army duty in India; and Rita Virginia Foley, 27; both for the first time; in Brookline, Mass...
...Died. Lieut. Colonel Harold Evans Hartney, 57, combat commander (shot down four times ) of World War I's famed First Pursuit Group (Eddie Rickenbacker was a member), later a racing pilot, pioneer in freight-and-passenger flying, adviser to the CAA; of heart disease; in Washington...