Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dvinsk alone, nine German supply and troop trains were smashed and burned. Exploding ammunition dumps, touched off by Red bombers, spread fires and ruin. Tottering back on Warsaw, German troops were strafed on the roads by attack planes, medium bombers and fighters: among them were U.S.-built, Russian-manned Airacobras, Bostons and cannon-carrying Mitchells...
...along the grey, rainswept Norman front it was bitter, close, bloody fighting for one small position after another; battle so like the grinding attrition of the troop-saturated positional fronts of World War I that it gave some veteran officers a nightmarish feeling of "this is where I came in." It took no topflight strategist to conclude that the invasion of Western Europe was falling farther & farther behind schedule...
Lady from Ohio. During World War I, brown-haired Harriet Day, a coed at Ohio State University, served coffee and doughnuts to troop trains passing through Columbus. One young soldier named John Bricker fell in love with Harriet's twinkling-eyed dignity, and after the war courted and married her. As a Columbus lawyer's wife Harriet Day Bricker painted, played the piano, gardened, composed song lyrics, raised son Jackie, 13, quietly helped her husband become Governor of Ohio. An efficient, handsome hostess, Mrs. Bricker will make no soapbox speeches in her husband's coming campaign...
...credit of efficient soldiers and .intelligent civilians, tension in Negro troop areas has recently been relieved rather than increased. The Army has provided better housing and recreation and segregation is less of an irritant. Even extremists might agree that the situation is better now than a year...
...Liberties are still being finished at East Coast yards. But no more keels will be laid, East or West. Already Richmond No. 2, and most of the other yards, are building the faster Victory ship (15 knots) and a shoal of Navy craft, C-4 troop transports, LSTs, frigates. But the feverish shipbuilding in which Richmond No. 2 built a Liberty in seven days is ended...