Word: rockey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corps' commander, rugged sy-year-old Major General Keller Emrick Rockey. veteran of World War I, Haiti, and Nicaragua, had bossed the 5th Division at Iwo Jima. His China mission, as he saw it: clean out the Japs, secure the ports for the arrival of U.S. ships with Chinese...
Farther south, in the strategic Shantung peninsula, communications were paralyzed. There the Communists held the important harbor of Chefoo. But the more important harbor of Tsingtao was occupied by U.S. marines, under able Major General Keller E. Rockey. In the hinterland Central Government provincial troops struggled with Communists astride the main railway running "south from Tientsin through Tsinan, Shantung's capital...
...days of bitter fighting, the men of the 3rd Marine Division (Major General Graves B. Erskine), the 4th (Major General Clifton B. Cates) and the 5th (Major General Keller E. Rockey) hold approximately 40% of Iwo Jima, including half of Airfield No. 2, the fighter field. This is almost in the exact geographical center of the island and is perhaps the key to the entire defense. Built on a high plateau, it is defended by hundreds of interlaced pillboxes and concrete casemated caves, apparently connected by labyrinthine tunnels which wind in & out of the cliffsides...
...more than 20 years. Today GAO, although it is relatively up-to-date on current audits, is still two to three years behind on less pressing business. * Committee members: the Army's Price Adjustment Board Chairman Joseph M. Dodge (chairman); Navy's PAB Chairman Kenneth H. Rockey (vice chairman); Maritime Commission's Thomas M. Woodward (also representing War Shipping Administration); Treasury's Captain Harry C. Maull Jr.; RFC's Charles T. Fisher; WPB's Carman G. Blough...