Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Darby, assigned to a War Department desk job in Washington, itched to go back to combat. When General "Hap" Arnold took an inspection party to Europe last month, he went along. In Italy he headed for the headquarters of the 10th Mountain Division-its assistant commander had just been wounded. He got the job, went happily back into action at the head of a combat team. But his fabulous luck had only eight days to run. Last week, shortly before German resistance crumpled, Bill Darby was killed by a German 88-mm. shell...
George S. Patton's Third Army rolled along the Danube through Austria toward a junction with Marshal Fedor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army. Together they would cut Czechoslovakia from Austria, tear the entire side out of the mountain fortress the Germans hoped to hold. The British crossed the Elbe near Hamburg in the north for a drive toward Lübeck. The U.S. Ninth and the U.S. First, southwest of Berlin, broke out for more linkups with Russian troops...
...mountain war for Baguio may be remembered best in time to come as the war of the Igorot women. Scores of these sturdy, brown, barefoot descendants of headhunters have padded softly out of Baguio and down through the protecting jungles into the U.S. lines. Now they are climbing back, carrying rations, water and ammunition for the 33rd Division, helping to solve a tough problem in mountain logistics...
...mountain far in the north the "Jmghpaw Elders of the United States Army"* gathered to celebrate. These Kachin tribesmen, armed with everything from bazookas to an issue of 500 good-as-new Civil War muskets, had taken Uncle Sam's 30? a day and fought the Japanese over the mountain trails in one of the war's toughest campaigns. Once 46 Kachins held a pass against 470 Japs, and killed 22; another time eleven Kachins held a ridge against 100 Japs. Now the admiring womenfolk, garbed in silver bracelets, colored turbans, hand-woven jackets and lungis (bright-hued...
Since the death of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis last November, baseball's big-league club owners had fumbled the question of naming a new commissioner. Some insisted that a successor should be named at once; others wanted to wait, perhaps until after the war. One sure thing was that no one wanted another Landis...