Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alaska. There was an immediate promotion to brigadier general in the assignment, and a task no good officer could have faced with overconfidence. Commanding a force that was never to go above 14,000 men until after Pearl Harbor, he had to fortify and guard a sparsely populated region one-fifth the size of the U.S., with a coastline nearly twice as long...
...expeditions examined the newly-opened region. Leader of the project, which collected 28,000 specimens, was Hugh M. Raup, Assistant Professor of Plant Ecology...
...future for us now holds nothing more than ten days of bliss--at home for those who live in the region served by the Boston Weather Bureau, on the trains for those who live in "sunny" by distant California. Of course, now is the time when Professor Hanson's prediction of a dire fate for 60 percent of us will be put to the acid test. Those far away lights in the eyes of B. A. Johnson and "Dreamer" Dye, Ensigns, SC, portend something to those who know. We've also noticed a few wistful glances on Archie Aiken...
...first night on Iwo Jima can only be described as a nightmare in hell. It was partly the weather-Iwo is as cold as Ohio at this season. The front line now has moved out of the tropics into a region of high winds and long periods without sunshine. Soon, U.S. fighting men will long for the dear old steaming jungles and sun-baked atolls. All through this bitter night the Japs rained heavy mortars and rockets and artillery on the entire area between the beach and the airfield. Twice they hit casualty stations on the beach. Many...
Lord of Pskov, Riazan, Yaroslavl, Vitebsk and All the Region of the North, Lord...