Word: oran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cliff's mother will not try to keep him down on the Elmwood farm, now that he has seen Oran. Until he is old enough to start all over again in the Army, ex-Airman Wherley has picked his job: inspector of Marauders in Glenn Martin's Omaha plant...
...Oran, where the 1st landed and met some of the hardest fighting of the early campaign in North Africa, Allen demonstrated the quality which had sometimes been confused with casual impetuosity. The French held a strong position at St. Cloud, a suburb of Oran. Rather than lose men in frontal assault, Allen, on a spur-of-the-moment decision, sent two units around the town, into Oran. As his men told it later, it sounded obvious and easy, but they knew it was the act of a resourceful and flexible commander...
...party in 1940 that the Charlotte doctors wanted to form an Army unit. The unit was authorized in December, went on active duty at Fort Bragg in March 1942, left for England Aug. 6, scrambled ashore in Africa Nov. 7 and was fully set up about ten miles from Oran a few days later. At Oran, the unit handled 2,027 patients...
...daybreak. Purpose: to establish Gafsa as a supply base for the Eighth Army. The first shell that pitched toward Gafsa that morning opened the campaign that ended at Bizerte and Tunis. It was the 1st Division's first action as a complete division since it landed in Oran in November. So successful was it that the enemy got out of Gafsa without a fight, and three days later the ist pushed 18 miles to El Guettar and into the hills beyond...
...training troops, Lloyd Fredendall will be able to draw on personal combat experience in both victory and defeat in World War II. After a smoothly handled landing at Oran, he was fated to lead U.S. troops in their first major engagement against Rommel and suffer the February defeat at Kasserine Pass, which cost more than 2,000 casualties and seriously delayed the offensive. His lines were extended so far it would have taken a week to send a postcard from one end to the other. Rightly or wrongly, Fredendall became the goat of the U.S. defeat, although he later turned...