Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saarbrücken Sector-"rich industrial prize," it was called in those first headlong days-penetration was between three-quarters of a mile and one mile and three-quarters. The most advanced troops were still three-quarters of a mile from Saarbrücken...
...shadowy shapes are still there-a patch of long grass billowing in wind...
...boys, but gun fodder-went into the Battle of Gettysburg 262 strong. The carnage was cruel: to 85% came death or wounds. But at no time in the Civil War did any unit of more than 1,000 men suffer higher than 20% casualties. That was when war was still in the mule and carbine stage. But changes in war technique have not changed an old military axiom: you cannot expect a unit which has lost more than one man in five to continue effective. It must be withdrawn from action, given two months' rest, completely reorganized. One reason...
...members of the crew heard an airplane. The plane circled around, shot bursts of machine-gun fire into the air. Captain F. C. P. Harris stopped ship. A "warship" came up from nowhere, hove to, ordered the men into four boats, captured Captain Harris and his chief engineer, took still and moving pictures of the victims and their craft, and then "fired 25 shots into the Clement and finally torpedoed...
...winner was a preacher, the Rev. W. H. Lash of Salisbury, N. C. At the parsonage, a female voice answered, showed no excitement over the message; replied that the Reverend was not at home. The Reverend won $1,000 just the same. If no one had answered, he would still have won $100, the remaining $900 going back into Turns' kitty...