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His lumbering height and near-sighted eyes almost ruined George's basketball career before it began. He got a cold shoulder from Notre Dame's basketball men, might never have made the grade at De Paul in normal times. But Coach Ray Meyer was hard pressed for a...
At first General Hoge's men met spotty opposition, then almost none. They picked up speed, rumbling through the Eifel hills. 'By late afternoon they sighted Remagen through a break in the hills, the four towers of its Apollinariskirche glistening in the drizzle. Beyond the church was Remagen...
While Halsey's Third Fleet was rampaging through Far Eastern seas in the late summer of 1944, engaging in 21 combat actions, his carriers also had to undertake 26 logistic (i.e., supply and troop movement) operations. But as a result of logistics successfully carried out, when the Jap fleet...
One day at dawn, she sighted a ship that looked, in the dim distance, like an armed raider. The stranger was twice challenged, and twice she ignored the "Daisy Mae." Then Lieut. Commander (now Commander) G. H. Stephen ordered his signalman: "Tell them we're going to open up...
Typical reactor was Pilot A, whose mission was to take a lone plane on a photographic-bombing mission over the best-protected part of a target. At the take-off and during the climb, the pilot's pulse was 96 a minute (high), his blood pressure 132 (a little...