Word: sth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Marines Wept. The 28th Regiment (part of the sth Division) of tall, gaunt Colonel Harry ("The Horse") Liver-sedge, ex-Raider, took Suribachi Volcano on D-plus-four. When the U.S. flag was raised over this highest point on the island, some marines wept openly...
...wife Peg and his daughters Joan, Susan and Nancy. As a refrain, all through the account of fighters and fighting appear touching snatches from Peg's and the girls' letters-the perennials Peg won at a bridge game, Susan and her clarinet, Nancy's i sth-birthday trip to New York, the Girl Scout hike, the bicycle trek to Newark. Peg wrote: "Your office always asks me if I have any message to add to their cables and I can't think of any except my love...
...Your book review of Period Piece: Etta Wheeler Wilcox and Her Times, p. 64 of your Feb. sth issue, recalls a meeting with Mrs. Wilcox. . . . Another infantry officer and myself ... in early Aug. 1918, on a short leave in Paris, had become fed up with the overly anxious feminine French dinner companions at every restaurant we entered and tried the Hotel Petrograd dining room-G. H. Q. of the Y. W. C. A.-Americaine...