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...mound for the Crimson nine will be Jack Wallace of the V-12 unit, with Sid Greeley, Jack Easton '47 of the V-12, and Sam Hall of the NROTC, as possible alternate starters. Bill Harding of the NROTC will be behind the plate...
...documentary film team, a driver, a mechanic and three gendarmes to guard us on the desert. Coming back we had to get a tenth into the car for the driver bought a Turki girl in Kashgar for $200 (rather pretty though unwashed) and perched her high on the topmost mound of baggage...
Infantrymen were running and crouching, circling around a large mound. Three or four mounted the grassy parapet and jumped down on the other side. There was a burst of fire, and another, as grenades went off. In the foreground a soldier wearing glasses and holding an unlit cigaret between his lips sprang from the concealing greenery and ran at half speed for about ten yards to a palm tree. He landed behind this tree with his feet forward in a sitting position and his head turned mechanically to look back over the field. After two or three seconds...
Wake, north of the Marshalls and vulnerable to an attack from Pearl Harbor, is the low-lying, V-shaped coral mound once so courageously defended by Major James P. Devereux and his Marines. Directly west of the Gilberts the isolated, three-by-four-mile mound of Nauru rises 225 feet above the sea. A coral reef encircles it closely. Because of its rich phosphate deposits (in addition to its strategic position), it is jealously held...
...there pokin' his rifle in all the holes and shootin' like hell and gettin' shot at a million times a minute." At great risk from shore batteries, destroyers ran close to the beach, opened up on targets as small as one Jap sniper or one pillbox mound. It was precision firing, the shells often landing less than 50 yards from the Marines. If the high explosives did not wreck many of the fortifications, they did strip away most of the islands' palm fronds...