Word: reconnoiterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In 1938 a part-HMC party set out to reconnoiter K2, the second largest mountain in the world. To their surprise they get 1000 feet from the top--and had to turn back because of a food shortage. A few years later a Harvard man and a Dartmouth man made...
Custer's chance came in the fatal expedition of 1876. Commanding a regiment in one of three columns advancing against an encampment of thousands of Sioux Indians at the Little Big Horn, he was assigned to a scouting expedition. Instead of joining the other columns before attacking, as ordered...
Hark, Hark, the Lark. For the more dignified, there were such things as the sonnet-writing contests held regularly in the home of Ford Madox Ford-a lively old Briton who loved to reminisce about his experiences in World War I. "It was in No Man's Land," Ford...
In charge of two LCMs (landing craft, mechanized), Telker had set out on a routine job of ferrying caterpillar tractors from Leyte to nearby Samar. He was puzzled when Jap planes strafed his craft, dumfounded when, after putting ashore in a small cove to reconnoiter, he was welcomed by jubilant...
This ill-fated detachment had been sent out to reconnoiter for 5,000 to 7,000 German troops, the remnants of several battered divisions which had been cut off in the woods east of Minsk. Their communications had been so completely severed that they no longer knew where the fighting...