Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other members were all top-drawer officers: Major General Frank Ross McCoy, bemedaled World War I troop commander and diplomat; Brigadier General Joseph T. McNarney, World War I airman, General Staffer on War Plans; Admiral William Harrison Standley, dynamic onetime Chief of Naval Operations; Rear Admiral Joseph Mason ("Bull") Reeves, ex-CINCUS. (All but McNarney are retired officers...
...with their own eyes how well the drive was going. As usual, New York Times's Cyrus L. Sulzberger painted the most vivid picture of the Russian effort: "White-helmeted infantrymen armed with automatic rifles and dragging metal ammunition cases be hind them on the snow, shuffling ski troops, cavalrymen on heavily furred horses, with rifles strapped to their backs and brass-handled sabers rattling by their sides, tractor-drawn supply sleighs and powerful howitzers, long columns of tanks and caterpillar troop carriers slogging past the wrecked debris of recent battles...
...Flamboyant Victor McLaglen galloped his gaudy light-horse troop to a Los Angeles jail to sign up for something...
...American forces in the Philippines penned invading Japanese in three isolated sectors in an effort to out them to pieces, U. S. bombers blasted two more Japanese troop transports and further Japanese air attacks were beaten off with slight damage. American garrisons defending Wake and Midway Islands still held...
...Philippines, the American air force was particularly active, battering at Japanese invaders huddled on the coast and at Japanese attempts to get reinforcements to their landing parties. The two Nipponese troop transports bombed brought to nine the total of enemy troop ships sunk or badly damaged off Luzon alone...