Word: nosedives
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Forty-five minutes before H-hour, rocket ships began belching their projectiles against smoking, dust-covered Iwo. When the first landing craft nosed into Futatsune Beach at 9 a.m., the opposition was thin and scattered. The Japs had pulled back from the black-ash beach, but they were calling their...
Married. Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, snub-nosed U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes); and Marjorie Ann Vattendahl, 21, teachers college graduate whose blown-up photograph glamorized his P-38; in Superior, Wis. Nine A.A.F. officers proxied for one absent wedding guest: ailing five-star General H. H. ("Hap...
¶ Manhattan newsmen, a little late on the scene, nosed out the fact that twelve arrests of men taking bets on basketball, hockey and prize fights had been made in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden since Jan. 1.
¶ There was the 1st Cavalry, by number a regular outfit, in reality a division of both regulars and citizen soldiers. The division had long ago been mechanized-but it was still cavalry at heart and its' oldtimers still talked nostalgically of the stable call and of night marches...
To meet the manpower pinch, local draft boards were already calling up deferred farm workers aged 18 to 25 and sending them off to the services. To most farmers it meant that work would be harder, crops inevitably shorter. Some wrote their Congressmen. One of them, North Dakota's...