Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then that Montgomery got on his flanks. As Rommel moved along the three-lane coastal highway, British tanks, light artillery and motorized infantry drew abreast of his rear guard. They moved fast and stealthily. Near Wadi Matratin the British sliced in and cut off this Axis tail. Most of the isolated troops were part of a German Panzer division. Mussolini's warriors, left in the lurch at El Alamein, were in the forefront of this latest retreat and far along the coast. In a three-day-long battle some of the Germans succeeded in fighting their way through...
...some rear camps and stations Americans will celebrate Christmas of a sort. One bombardment squadron sentry stands armed guard night & day over a scraggly turkey which was found wandering in the jungle three weeks ago and since then has been fattened on cereals and broken Army biscuits...
...Beginnings. For these startling gains all credit goes to Art Tilt, who has a seventh sense for what truckmen will buy, has manufactured motor vehicles longer than anyone else except Henry Ford. Art started Diamond T (Diamond for quality; T for Tilt) 38 years ago in the rear of a one-story Chicago garage. Brash and bossy, Art ignored most truckmaker traditions, did whatever he wanted to. It worked. Before World War I Diamond T had a national reputation; then its military trucks gave it an international reputation...
Highest U.S. award is the Congressional Medal of Honor, which President Roosevelt conferred last week on two heroic officers of the Battle of Guadalcanal: posthumously to his onetime White House aide, Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan, and Rear Admiral Norman Scott. Cited also for the Medal of Honor was Commander Bruce McCandless, the 31-year-old communications officer who took command of the cruiser San Francisco when Admiral Callaghan and the captain were killed. Said the President to Lieut, (j.g.) Daniel J. Callaghan Jr.: "And so, Jud, I give you the finest thing that has ever been given to your...
...troops. In Indo-China, Jap troops were recently reported landing at Haiphong on the coast and streaming ashore from barges at Hanoi on the Red River. Troop trains had been seen moving north-toward the Yunnan border. Chungking declared that Japan, with the cooperation of Vichyfrench Governor General Rear Admiral Jean Decoux, was conscripting an army of 150,000 native Indo- Chinese. Estimates of Japanese air forces in Burma, Indo-China and Siam: between 700 and 800 planes...