Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where Is Koga? On both Choiseul and Bougainville, Allied landings were made on relatively undefended beaches, near but not too near Japanese strongholds. Allied amphibious forces under the command of Rear Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson did their job unmolested except by a few hit-&-run air attacks. Enemy airfields in the area had been literally knocked out by a sustained air campaign. By week's end, the Japanese Fleet had not reacted to the advance in any way. General Douglas MacArthur, a relative newcomer to the delights of naval warfare, said: "If the Jap Fleet comes out I will...
...Russia, which was once short of ambulances, now has mobile hospitals at the rear and even right behind the lines...
...fighting took place on this war's loftiest battleground-10,000 ft. above sea level. Foot soldiers crawled up steep trails, through barbed, prickly grass. They used grenades, rifles, and mountain guns; they panted for breath and belabored pack animals. The advantage lay with the Japs, in whose rear good motor roads fed supplies and reinforcements. Behind the Chinese, communications were slow and tortuous...
...Japs began a withdrawal. One of their cruisers was slamming shells at the San Francisco, which had tangled with a Jap battleship and taken the salvo which killed Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan and her skipper, Medal-of-Honorman Cassin Young. The Helena sank the cruiser and a destroyer, shot up three other Jap ships. The U.S. beachhead in the Solomons was finally secure...
...veterans for each position, including an ex-St. Mary's passing ace named Johnny Podesto. Stagg drilled home his system, called a "6-dinger," which he invented at Yale in 1889. He explained his nomenclature: the quarterback is the "on back," the full the "off," the halfs the "rear" and "wing," depending on which leads the play. He thought he might win a few games. Last week's victory was the fifth straight...