Word: shermanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another street Sergeant Howard Finch (Sheldon, Iowa) found himself in a building with Germans in the basement below. He boldly hung out the window, signaled wildly to an approaching Sherman tank, then jumped back as the tank hurled five shells through the basement window a few feet below...
...Infantry Flees. Tanks within the town hugged the buildings to escape German shelling. One Sherman was hit and set afire beside an outpost building with one room intact. Privates Tony de Meo (Brooklyn) and Fred Ratcliff (Pontiac, Mich.) sweated as the tank's 75-mm. shells began to explode just outside the room. Then they vaulted from the window and dashed to safety with snipers' bullets pinging through the air around them...
...Sturges-Hughes, Inc. (the latter insisted that the former come first) has rented five sound stages at Harry Sherman's California Studios, will rent more space as needed. The new corporation plans to make some 20 films, has no idea through whom they will be released, what the first one will be, who will star, or when production will start. The plan is to begin modestly, and grow great slowly...
...plea has been made for snapshots of any activities from junior class members. These printes should be submitted to the editorial offices, which are located on 3rd deck, Sherman Hall...
...neatly skirted by providing for a title with American precedent: General of the Armies. If the bills are passed, he and General "Hap" Arnold will get the new rank now held only by John J. Pershing, and held in the past only by three other U.S. fighting men: Grant, Sherman and Sheridan...