Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were neat tent cities where marines lived between campaigns, rest camps where submarine crews breathed the fresh smell of jungles, recreation centers where Navymen played baseball, drank strictly rationed beer. Four Fleet and three Army hospitals could accommodate nearly 10,000 patients, and back & forth along the asphalt highways roll caravans of khaki ambulances with their pitiful loads...
...grey morning light, solemn lines of soldiers and officers watched a U.S. field ambulance roll along the dusty road toward the 7th Infantry Division Cemetery on Okinawa. Inside lay the body of the man who had led them through the Pacific war's bloodiest battle: Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., commander of the U.S. Tenth Army. Almost on the eve of victory, he had been killed by a Japanese shell in a forward observation post (TIME, June...
Doctor of Laws: Bradley Dewey '08, former Rubber Director of the War Production Board: President of the Dewey and Almy Chemical Company in Cambridge: "A Cambridge industrialist whose Herculean labors in a federal office gave us the rubber on which we now roll to victory...
Trapped men were still being hauled out. At the first muster that evening only 250 fit men and 75 officers had turned up. Two days later more than 600 men and 100 officers were able to answer the roll. In the chief petty officers' quarters, rescuers found a mess cook who, with half of one foot severed, in water up to his armpits had managed to stay alive for three days...
Roger Pellaton, stroke; Tom Haymond, 7; William Saltonstall, 6; Thomas Morse, 5; Miles Wambaugh, 4; Peter Roll, 3; Bill Sprout, 2; Howie Hall, bow; Dan Paul...