Word: quay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian divisions, prevent a Russian breakthrough to Norway and possible juncture with the Western Allies. Down by the harbor a stolid crowd watched flustered Germans dredge for 15 tanks, sent to the bottom the day before when a small and poorly loaded German freighter turned over near the quay...
Reunion. The white ship with the green band around her belly and red crosses all over her turned up in Liverpool next day. As the Atlantis came alongside the quay, a voice began calling "Cynthia"; soon the battered ranks along the rail were roaring in chorus: "Cynthia, Cynthia, Cynthia." A tall, handsome girl stepped out of the packed crowd on the dock and waved. Cynthia Elliot, niece of Lady Maud Carnegie, was taken prisoner with a mobile canteen unit in France in 1940, put to nursing 1,500 wounded and captured men of Dunkirk. With many of those...
...routine press release from the Army this week credited two second lieutenants with sinking "a large Italian transport of the 50,000-ton Conte di Savoia class." The U.S. pilots, flying A36 fighter bombers (converted P-51s), spotted a big ship anchored off a quay at Bagnara Calabra in the southwestern part of Italy. They bombed it, registering two hits and a near miss. Pilots who flew over next" day confirmed the sinking...
...McCaul, Harvard, 30:42; 17, Chuck Cleavey, Yale, 30:43; 18, Bob Osborn, Princeton, 31:08; 19, Bill Gardner, Yale, 31:16; 20, Ed Essertier, Princeton, 31:18; 21, Kay Rogers, Harvard, 31:31; 22, Walter Mann, Yale, 31:33; 23, Tom Whitin, Princeton, 32:40; 25, Joe Quay, Princeton...
Princeton runners will include Captain Maurice Rehm, Ruloff Kip, Ed. Bragdon, Frank Carolan, Ed Esstier, Joe Quay Tom Whitin, Don Jordan, Joan De Champion and Pete Funk...