Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lance Corporal Tommy McGrath, an ama teur senior welterweight from Cardiff, Wales, was the sole British winner...
...They all volunteered for the services when the time came. David is a senior lieutenant in the Navy, on an aircraft carrier; Robert is a sergeant in the Army Signal Corps in Italy and Stephen...
...clock that night, a portentous hush settled on the German radio. Then came a flourish of trumpets, followed by the announcer's voice, vibrant with pride and triumph: "The Führer's Headquarters. The German High Command announces: A sub marine commanded by Senior Lieutenant von Billow has sunk in the middle of the North Atlantic the American aircraft carrier Ranger, employed to guard Atlantic convoy routes. The Führer has awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross [of the Iron Cross] to Lieutenant von Bülow, the 234th member...
Back to the Hills. The Patrol's success has earned Senior Patrol Officer Ingoldsby a bid for a postwar job in the Navy. To this he has emphatically turned two deaf ears. A self-made man who went through the National Police Academy after quitting high school to work, Ingoldsby thinks little of his postwar Navy prospects. When the war is over, he intends to make a beeline for his job in Virginia's peaceful Blue Ridge mountains, where there are no sailors...
...begins when Major Victor Joppolo, 35, a senior officer of the Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory, enters the town of Adano. It ends, 266 pages and three weeks later, when he is recalled. Between these two episodes it packs: 1) a good deal of concrete information on the errors and accomplishments of the administration of the occupied village; 2) an unforgettable, sometimes sickening picture of the degradation of the Italians after 20 years of Mussolini; 3) a lopsided, bitter portrait of a loudmouthed, fire-eating, bullying U.S. general, who resembles General Patton; 4) a plot. The work...