Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start of the post-armistice campaign, most Finns had too long been friends of the Germans to pursue the battle with gusto. But heavy-footed Germans did their undiplomatic best to change Finnish minds. Outmoded Stukas brutally dive-bombed two Finnish troop trains. Finnish towns were fired with senseless Teutonic fury. The Finnish soldier began to take a more personal interest...
...served in the Rhineland occupation (in the same area that his First Army's maps now cover). He returned to a ten-year tour of troop duty, of instruction in the Army's schools, of teaching from the textbooks. For 14 years Major Courtney Hodges had no promotions. Like many another professional soldier, he learned again that in peace the soldiers' rewards are small and few. But it was his life. He read, studied, worked with characteristic precision at field and garrison duties...
Although they did not announce the new Greek campaign until last week, the British began their operation Sept. 24. Actually it was more an occupation than a full-scale invasion. First, troop carriers dropped parachutists in the northwest corner of the Peloponnesus. Unopposed, they set to work building an airfield, piling up supplies...
...course," Suzette explained. "We had all worked at the Bal Tabarin since before the war. But we never collaborated. A year ago the Germans were gathering a complement to send to the Maison Oslo and they did not have quite enough volunteers. So they grabbed us. They told our troop of 42 that it was for six months...
...there are always special deliveries needed too; so gasoline also goes to the front in the bellies of the Troop Carrier Command's C-47s. Carrying fuel and other urgent supplies, the great ships sit down, one every 14 seconds, on narrow emergency landing strips sometimes only 50 miles behind the racing tanks. Soon railways will take over much of the burden...