Word: rupertus
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Then the 1st was withdrawn for rest and reorganization. It went back into battle in New Britain. But its bloodiest job was still to come. In the early fall of 1944, under the late Major General William H. Rupertus, its men waded ashore from landing craft on Peleliu in the Palau Islands. On Bloody Nose Ridge in caves which were the "incarnate evil of this war," the Japs made their last stand. In stifling heat at least one regiment of the ist took as high as 60% casualties. The 81st Infantry Division ("Wildcat") moved in to relieve them. In three...
Died. Major General William H. Rupertus, 55, big-jowled commandant of Marine Corps schools at Quantico, Va., able commander in the Solomons and Palau islands campaigns; of a heart attack; in Washington...
Nevertheless, many of Peleliu's Japs, waiting in their pillboxes, blockhouses and hillside caves, were still alive and full of fight when Major General William H. Rupertus' famed ist Marine Division (Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester) hit the teach last week. TIME Correspondent Robert Martin, lying on the sand between two marines, pinned down by mortar fire, heard one say "I wonder where we are." Said the other "It sure as hell ain't Staten Island...
Marines. Across the sea some 300 miles, on New Guinea's northern shore, Brigadier General William Rupertus and his 1st Marine Division had been fighting their way in the direction of Rabaul. It was a slow pace. Last week they speeded it up, jumped overwater to a new objective: the airfield and town of Talasea on the Willaumez Peninsula, 170 miles from Rabaul...
Their commander: lanky, bald, mustachioed Major General William H. Rupertus, who commanded a Marine landing on Tulagi in August, 1942. For his deeds then 54-year-old Rupertus was awarded the Navy Cross...