Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Official Washington, already startled by the optimism of Lieut. General Robert...
...first list had been hastily compiled, apparently under pressure from the U.S. press. It included the name of Tojo and all his Cabinet (a few of whom might win acquittal) and assorted criminals at large: Lieut. General Masaharu Homma (the Bataan death march), Mark Lewis Streeter (U.S. civilian from Wake who wrote propaganda for Radio Tokyo), Jose Laurel (Filipino quisling), Joseph Meisinger (Gestapo "butcher of Warsaw...
...Decision. Meanwhile, Lieut. General John R. Hodge, unbriefed on Korea, landed there. The directive he had not seen told him to replace Japanese officials immediately. Hodge retained the Japs, including the notorious General Nobuyuki Abe, ex-Governor of Korea, whom he thanked publicly for making the U.S. occupation "simple and easy." Hodge also kept the Japanese police, holding that Koreans were "too excited" to perform police duty and that they were "the same breed of cat as the Japanese." Koreans roared and rioted (Japanese soldiers machine-gunned one throng, killed two, wounded...
...Pacific, the 6th Marine Division boasted enough football talent to line up three all-star teams. Now, on the way back, the 6th would be hard-pressed to muster one full team. Some of those lost on Okinawa: Killed-Wisconsin's 1942 All-America end, 1st Lieut. Dave Schreiner; Purdue's 1943 All-America fullback (and leading Big Ten scorer), Corporal Tony Butkovich; Notre Dame's 1942 captain and end, 1st Lieut. George Murphy...
Wounded-California's 1936 All-America center, 1st Lieut. Bob Herwig*; Iowa's 1940 captain and tackle, Major Rade ("Mike") Enich; the New York (Pro) Giants' and ex-Brown University fullback, Lieut. John McLaughry...