Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul Schmidt, who as chief of the German Foreign Office press relations had for years laid down the Nazi party line for foreign correspondents, was discovered at Salzburg, after living for four days in a hotel room with U.S. officers occupying rooms on either side...
...great goal-getters: the New York Rangers' Bill Cook-Frank Boucher-Bun Cook combination of the late '20s and early '30s; the Canadiens' superb Howie Morenz-Aurel Joliat-Johnny Gagnon trio in 1932-33; the Boston Bruins' famed "Kraut Line" of 1939-40 (Milt Schmidt-Bobbie Bauer-Woodrow Wilson Dumart). By any N.H.L. standard, Montreal's tricky skaters looked great...
...slow march. On the 19th day of the battle for Iwo, a 28-man patrol from Company A of the 21st Regiment (part of Major General Graves B. Erskine's 3rd Division) broke through to the northeast coast and slid down the cliffs to the beach. To General Schmidt, they sent back a canteen of sea water, marked "for approval-not for consumption." To the aid stations they carried back their wounded, caught in Jap mortar fire on the beach. Next day, the 4th made a second breakthrough, cutting the Japs into three pockets, one of which was soon...
Lives for Yards. The Japs will lose Iwo Jima to the men of Major General Harry Schmidt's V Amphibious Corps, and we will have airfields within 750 miles of Tokyo. One reason for this is sheer power, including naval and air supremacy, but the ultimate factor in the fall of Iwo Jima will be the character and courage of the U.S. Marine Corps. There comes a time when defenses will no longer yield before fire power, however heavy. That is the time when men on foot must pay for yardage with their lives. That is when the marines...
...high-domed, hard-driving conqueror of Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Tarawa, Kwajalein and Saipan. With Turner on the bridge of his command ship was Lieut. General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, boss of the Fleet Marine Force. Loaded on the surrounding transports were the men of Major General Harry Schmidt's V Amphibious Corps: the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions...