Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Marine. Marines identify themselves less with divisions than with their whole, proud, hardboiled Corps, which has fought in almost every campaign since Commodore Esek Hopkins' expedition to New Providence in the Bahamas, in March 1776. Before this war the Corps was not arranged in divisions. Nevertheless, the history of the Corps in World War II will largely be the story of its divisions, beginning with the ist. This was the outfit chosen to make the first big U.S. attack in World War II-the gambling, amphibious assault on Guadalcanal in August 1942. Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, later...
...Nevertheless the War Crimes Commission in London was hard at work, checking the latest prisoner lists against its bulky catalogues of charges. The Commission has no power to act, can only list the accused and compile evidence. But it had made some progress in broadening its concept of war crime...
...naval fueling station and synthetic fuel factory at Tokuyama, the big oil refinery at Otaki, and the oil storage installations on Oshima (biggest in the home islands). They also flogged four airfields on Kyushu and Shikoku. Fighter opposition was timid, but there was heavy flak from Jap warships. Nevertheless, not one of the big bombers was lost...
...Dutch can contribute little. Their navy was virtually destroyed three years ago. The French, concerned with Indo-China, nevertheless can send little more than a token force...
...Will They Be? Nevertheless, millions of wives and sweethearts could dream and hope. Who would be the chosen...