Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Corporal John C. Corbett of the 8th Marines had won a signal honor. He picked up a stone and hurled it with all his strength from the low cliffs of southern Okinawa into the blue waters which lapped the shore. That stone's splash meant that the eleven-week drive by U.S. forces from the center of the island had at last reached the southern...
...officers, counting up recent gains, judged that the enemy's final stand could not be far off. Meanwhile the 281st Signal Platoon had discovered yet a new enemy. Armed with automatic shotguns, the signalmen were out hunting falcons. The falcons had been maliciously pouncing on U.S. carrier pigeons...
...with Wedemeyer, transmits his orders directly to his field commanders. Wedemeyer informs McClure and McClure's network supervises the execution. But in action, Chinese officers are solely responsible. The result is that U.S. officers train and fight alongside Chinese infantrymen and artillerists. The Americans have set up veterinary, signal corps, transport and general staff schools to teach U.S. techniques. These institutions were conceived by General Stilwell and were in existence when Wedemeyer arrived. But Wedemeyer welded them into a cohesive whole. Seldom had the traditional friendship of two great peoples been so tested and proved on the battlefields...
...corner of northwestern Germany the German war spirit still throve. Around the red brick Marine & Signal School in Flensburg milled armed German soldiers and sailors. Sometimes they drilled stiffly, sometimes they sang Wir Fahren Gegen Engeland and the Horst Wessel Lied...
...mile away, on the rusty old German liner Patria, moored in Flensburger Forde, a SHAEF mission had set up shop. One direct wire linked the Patria with General Eisenhower's headquarters at Reims. Another ran from the Patria to the Marine & Signal School...