Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Firing for the second NROTC pistol team match of the 1945 season will continue through this week, Commander C. F. Havemeyer, USNR, Officer in Charge of the team, announced yesterday. Against Tufts, the match is one of eight tentatively scheduled for the team...
...firing. Scheduled to compete are the following, all of the NROTC: Charles L. Coll, James F. McGorrigan, Thomas W. James, David A. Williamson, Edwin N. McGlew, John F. Dolan, Robert W. Sanders, Herbert Keppler, and Joseph J. Berstein. Comdr. Havemeyer plans to have firing for the Bupers NROTC pistol competition completed...
This week the Remagen bridgehead area had grown to 144 square miles. As the beachhead at Anzio had been, Remagen was a pistol jabbed into the Nazi flank. Also like Anzio, the breakout would probably be timed with attacks elsewhere...
Suddenly a 31-year-old lieutenant colonel, veteran of 80 missions and ranking officer at the base, walked forward, lifted his heavy pistol and fired two shots. The screaming stopped...
John Basilone commanded two machine-gun emplacements. When one gun crew was wiped out, he rolled back & forth over the ground, firing first one gun, then the other, kept them chattering through the long night. When the guns got too hot, he used his pistol. When the ammunition got low, he went back through enemy fire for more. When the Japs gave it up, there were 38 dead in front of just one of John Basilone's emplacements. He and his handful of survivors had virtually annihilated a Jap regiment, had helped save Henderson Field...