Word: mop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Jacques Doriot, 57, pudgy, mop-haired, ex-Communist, French Fascist founder of the pro-Nazi French People's Party, who once demanded that Vichy declare war on the U.S. and Britain; from the fire of low-flying Allied planes which attacked his car (according to German reports); in southwestern Germany...
...continuing mop-up of enemy remnants in the Marianas, a Japanese was captured, so badly wounded that he could not survive without a blood transfusion. A company commander, who knew that his men had been so sickened by Jap tactics that they believed the only good Jap was a dead Jap, made the gesture of asking for volunteers. Every man in the company offered to give blood...
Chickering saw at first hand the savage Bougainville campaign and the terror of jungle war. Then he shifted to the Central Pacific, where he went ashore at Kwajalein and watched the mop-up operations. He saw death all around...
Mike's sister, Margaret, mourned: "He used to be so nice. Now he's just a bunch of nerves and never sits still." Mike, dejectedly running his big hands through his mop of brown hair, said: "Maybe I need a psychiatrist...
MacArthur announced that the 11th Airborne Division was in action on Leyte; in its first combat, the outfit captured a strategic mountain pass, made a junction with the 7th Division and helped mop up the enemy 26th. There was still bitter fighting to be done, and even after the island was declared secure, there would be hundreds of Japs to be dug out. But the broad strategic objective had been...