Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilian correspondents including Ernie Pyle, and five men each for the A.P. and U.P. (When the landing proved to be the least bloody the Marines have made, one hulking Marine sergeant wanted to wear Ernie Pyle around his neck as a good-luck charm...
...future. In spite of many shortcomings America is a new country where past achievements are only a starting point for the future. You will be welcome in America, for you too have taken your chance and embarked on a great adventure. Americans admire courage. They will wish you good luck and happiness in your new life in the new world...
...luck of the draw and the schedules, the 82nd was the first airborne divi sion to go overseas and into action. Ridgway and his outfit became the test case for the whole airborne program. Elements of the division went first to North Africa, and the entire division was first committed in Sicily, July...
...score of bombed-out cities, thousands of dead rotted in the rubble; corpses of fleeing refugees lay in windrows along the roads. Only the lucky ones got burial, and last week Berlin limited even their luck: henceforth only two sizes of shrouds will be manufactured-and coffins will no longer have linings...
Along with him came the full story of the first flag raising on Mt. Suribachi (Rosenthal's was the second) and the bad luck of Marine Photographer Louis R. Lowery. On D-plus-four, Sergeant Lowery, the only photographer present, scrambled to the top of 546-ft. Suribachi, took 56 pictures of marines raising a 3-ft. American flag under heavy fire. A Jap grenade landed at Lowery's feet; he ducked, tumbled 50 feet down the side of the volcano, wrenched his side, smashed his camera. For all his pains, his shot of Iwo's first...