Word: sham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the war in North Carolina was only a sham battle, Private Roland Sauter of the 102nd Coast Artillery Brigade came close to being a real casualty last week. Stationed with an anti-aircraft unit at an abandoned farmhouse near Fort Bragg, he was moseying around for some soft weeds on which to spend the night when he suddenly dropped 30 feet into a dried-up well. He yelled. The echo was terrific, but nobody came. He tried to climb out, but the well walls crumbled under his clutching hands. After a while rats began to munch at his shoes...
...officers of the Second and Third Armies, resting from their far from sham labors in far-flung sham battle, the GHQ's Chief of Staff spoke pregnant words. Said Lieut. General Lesley James McNair: "There can be no excuse for another Guadalajara...
South of Shreveport, where Spanish moss droops from the live oaks and watercourses slash the marshy Louisiana land like knife-cuts in a pan of fudge, 340,000 soldiers of the Army met last week in the greatest sham battle in U.S. history. It was also the most decisive...
Then, with masterful use of cavalry, the Reds outflanked the Blues, who were concentrated at the town of Puebla. The Reds feinted an attack from the south, enveloped from the north. The maneuvers ended with a tactically foolish but visually exciting sham battle on San Juan Hill, north of Puebla. As planned, the Red Army...
...against Al McCoy (real name: Florien La Brasseur). They knew it would be one-sided. McCoy, a local oldtimer who had been crouching around New England for ten years, had been licked by young Billy Conn only a few weeks before. But the crowd was hardly prepared for the sham battle...