Word: mesa
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...high New Mexico mesa where the town of Los Alamos now stands, there was once a school for boys. In 1942 the U.S. Army bought Los Alamos Ranch School, folded it up and asked the alumni not to mention its name. Then they began to build the town that built the atom bomb...
Last June 23, when the invasion of Sicily was 17 days away, Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen wrote a letter from North Africa to an Army friend at home. Of him self, General Allen wrote nothing. Of his men in the ist Infantry Division, which he commands, Terry Allen wrote...
Nicosia and Agira were two towns in central Sicily that the Allies had to take on their march toward the Germans' last line around Mt. Etna. Canadians, between the British at Catania and Americans on the left, took Agira. U.S. troops, apparently Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen's 1st Infantry Division (see col. 3), took Nicosia. The only road to that town lay through a deep mountain trough, fortified by the Germans, and past German-held hills. With Captain Edward Wozenski and his company, when they took one of these hills, was TIME Correspondent John Hersey...
...three major generals commanding infantry divisions, the best known is Terry de la Mesa Allen, leader of the 1st, only division in the Seventh Army that fought the Germans and Italians before Sicily. Lucian K. Truscott Jr. of the 3rd Infantry is a hell-roaring cavalryman, tall, lean, wiry. He developed U.S. Ranger tactics in England, accompanied a unit of Canadian Commandos on the bloody Dieppe Raid...
...been thrown a great weight of naval shells and aerial bombs. Against Gela, now, were sent crack troops of the Seventh Army: first a shock battalion of Commando-trained Rangers under Lieut. Colonel William O. Darby, who was to do brave things, and Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen's tried-&-proved 1st Division...