Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spellbound (Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov; TIME...
Communist guerrillas had cut the rail road from the great Kailan coal mines to the port of Chinwangtao. For nine days none of the Kailan coal, which China desperately needs, had moved. U.S. Major General Dewitt Peck, commander of the ist Marine Division, tried the route to Chinwangtao. For two days Communist guerrillas sporadically attacked his train. Near Lwanhsien village, his train was stalled by Communist small-arms fire. General Peck ordered the marines to fire back, while he sat smoking his pipe and cursing. Then he called for a Piper Cub to finish the trip. His superior, Major...
...directing General Peck to send an emissary to [Lwanhsien] to inform the Communist leader that if the fire continues against our forces, I will order an air strafing mission against the village...
...Peck's First. With him in Tientsin was the famed ist Division which invaded Guadalcanal, New Britain, Peleliu and suffered its worst casualties at bloody Okinawa. Few if any veterans of those grisly days were still on hand, but the new men were the same kind of businesslike marines. Under Rockey and grey-haired, peppery Major General Dewitt Peck, who commanded the famous 4th Marines at Shanghai before the war, they cleaned up and settled down...
Spellbound (Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov; TIME...