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Soldier to Proconsul. In 1937 Wavell returned to the Near East as commander in chief in Palestine and Transjordan, largely stamped out the bloody Jewish-Arab riots. In 1939, he assumed command of the British forces in Egypt. World War II swelled his Egyptian garrison into the Imperial Army of...
*The U.S.S. Bush, Colhoun, Halligan, H. L. Abele and Pringle. *Among the nine targets: the field at Usa, a town from which the Japanese used to export to the U.S. cheap jewelry stamped: "Made in USA."
Impatiently Buckner had stamped over the tundra, tended Alaska's defenses and watched the war. He played no part when U.S. forces cleared the lower Solomons. He and his men stood aside while troops and ships put out from California to drive the Japanese off Kiska and Attu islands...
Student and Stowaway. A meteoric manager, Harris (real name: Jacob Horowitz) is a volcanic man. Born in Newark (though he later said he was born in Vienna), he read omnivorously at Yale for two years, then quit. He bummed his way west and then abroad, coming home a stowaway in...
The inquiry that led to uncovering the racket was started more than a year ago, when Chinese bandits who were hijacking U.S. trucks were found to be armed with smuggled U.S. weapons. Under Colonel Harry Cooper, of Baltimore, a former U.S. secret service operator, Army investigators have cleared up 87...