Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, for probably the first time in a Pacific amphibious operation, the Navy had suffered more casualties than the troop units it had landed for battle. The reason: intense and repeated Jap air attacks on the swarms of ships off Okinawa. The chief method of attack: the Japs' frantic, fanatic Kamikaze Corps' suicide crash dives on U.S. ships (TIME, April...
Close, But . . . The war which struck the U.S. at Pearl Harbor late in 1941 lapped perilously close to Buckner's domain in the following six months. In early June 1942, when the Japanese seized Kiska and Attu, enemy carrier-based planes attacked Dutch Harbor and troop transports bore down on the base. They turned away when land-based aircraft from Buckner's hastily constructed airfields struck at them...
...symphony orchestra of well-trained musicians, none of whom had been introduced to each other or had ever played in public before. Liaison between air, ground and sea forces was faulty. In one of the war's most tragic errors, U.S. antiaircraft guns blasted down a covey of troop-laden planes like fat ducks. Because of this, the scheduled glider runs were hastily called off. Other transport pilots missed landmarks and sowed their hapless paratroops up & down the coast, miles from their objectives. In consequence, the parachutists came down in so many places that the alarmed Germans thought they...
...dropped at 1025, four miles north of the Rhine. Our plane was a hell of a lot hit before we got out of it. Those troop-carrier command boys deserve a hell of a lot of credit. They have to drop their men at 600 feet and that is too low for them to get out themselves and so they have to turn around and nurse that plane back and sometimes they do and sometimes they don't, but they always drop their sticks of men. The Germans had small arms and small antiaircraft fire but compared...
...warm, musical voice, the Rev. Mr. Settle usually introduces the choir's songs with a bit of sermonizing. While he and his 21 -voice troop are traveling and singing abroad, he suspects that the fighting men "may also get a bit of sermon and Bible-reading now and then...