Word: mihiel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Colonel John W. (William) Thomason Jr., 51, dashing Leatherneck litterateur; after a brief illness; in San Diego, Calif. A drawling, deadpan Texan, onetime reporter, as a 2nd Lieut. he snatched from Soissons, St. Mihiel, the Meuse-Argonne and Belleau Wood three decorations-as well as the hard-boiled anecdotes and swirling, on-the-spot sketches which first appeared as a book in his best-selling Fix Bayonets (1926). A decade ago he summed up his attitude toward Japan's early conquest in China with the prediction that he would die as a Marine Corps Brigadier General-leading...
...Captain Holland Smith set off for France. He spent two years there. He was adjutant of the famed 4th Marine Brigade. Then he was Assistant Operations Officer for the U.S. I Corps, where he served with Army officers as well as Marines. He was at Soissons, Champagne, St. Mihiel...
...passed several years ago authorizes officers decorated in World War I for services beyond the call of duty to go up one grade upon retirement. Veteran Tommy Holcomb commanded a Marine battalion in World War I, was under fire at St. Mihiel, Soissons, the Argonne. Lieut. Colonel Holcomb came out strewn with ribbons...
...week of the Great Armistice that lost the world a great war. Twenty-five years ago the ambulances were rolling along the hard-surfaced driveways of Walter Reed Hospital, bringing the men out of the foreign valleys-from St. Mihiel, the Meuse, the Somme. Today the ambulances roll again, bringing young men from other valleys-from Nicosia, Salerno, Kiska, Guadalcanal...
Armistice. In September 1918, Colonel George C. Marshall, Chief of Operations for the First Army, finished the planning. On the 12th the First Army attacked along the salient at St. Mihiel. By the end of October the whole Meuse-Argonne front was aflame. In the gumbo mud of France 117,000 men of the First Army were dead or wounded. The German army was in retreat. On Oct. 30 Pershing wrote: "We should . . . continue the offensive until we compel [Germany's] unconditional surrender...