Word: rears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second time, Congress last week extended the deadline for filing of court-martial charges against Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieut. General Walter C. Short...
...President, whose wetted forefinger is always held up to catch the direction of the political wind, had now quietly marched full circle around the Republican position. While the G.O.P. had been flogging itself hard to overtake the President on internationalism, Mr. Roosevelt had blandly turned up in their rear, calmly proposing to appropriate their headquarters...
Battleships, cruisers, destroyers stood off the coast, wrapped themselves in smoke screens and hurled steel from 640 guns. They arrived in two divisions. On the east they were British and Canadian vessels under the command of Rear Admiral Sir Philip Vian. On the west they were U.S., under the command of Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk. Never before, not at Tarawa or Kwajalein or Salerno, had a target been subjected to such overwhelming bombardment from...
...helmetless German stumbled out into the open, hands in the air. His right wrist had been shattered by a bullet and from his upraised arm the hand dangled by a few bloody shreds of raw flesh. A civilian came up, searched him. Our troops waved him to the rear, went...
...these animals, worth a few hundred dollars each in the U.S., are priceless in Italy. Each pack train has its own veterinarian to give first aid. He also decides which wounded animals must be shot, which can be hospitalized. The wounded are moved to the rear, usually tied between healthy animals. Then they are shipped in trucks to the base hospital, an abandoned farm.* There a concrete-floored paddock serves as a ward for wounded and a few sick animals (mules sometimes suffer from arthritis...