Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North of Abbeville, where the blacktop road bites into the red clay of eastern Alabama like a suture in raw flesh, the Fourth Division's Reconnaissance Troop halted. They climbed stiffly down from armored scout cars spaced a precise 25 yards apart, pushed goggles back from windburned, dusty faces, dug in reefer pockets for cigarets. Motorcyclists propped their machines on stands, squinted appraisingly at engines. The long-legged, flat-backed Troop Commander brushed oil-stains from his face with a reddened hand and walked back along the column, to see how things were...
Since daybreak the Reconnaissance Troop had been pushing north at a steady 30 m.p.h. Two hours behind them the rest of the division-infantry, artillery, engineers and miscellaneous outfits-were pounding along at the standard speed. Here was a chance for a two-hour rest. The division commander, Major General Lloyd R. Fredendall, had ordered the troop to wait for the division north of Abbeville, go on into Fort Benning, Ga., in tight column...
Then she was gone." &"Up Periscope!"; is the grim account by an unnamed officer of the submarine Sturgeon of the sinking of a crowded Nazi troop transport. Front-Line Girl is the story of Sonia Straw, one of the first three women to receive the George Medal for civilian gallantry. "Although she had seen nothing more bloody than a cut finger in her 19 years" Sonia treated bomb victims for everything from shrapnel wounds to shell shock. Most blood-tingling are the restrained accounts of fights and bombings by British airmen whose anonymity the R. A. F. guards unless they...
...preliminary, expected all along, would be intensified air attacks. Last week there was a tentative intensification, but not quite the real thing. There was a notable revival of daylight raids, in which Nazi planes undertook low-flying attacks on railways and their stations, ports and their installations, on airfields, troop camps, towns and villages. In fire raids on London, the Nazis reversed previous tactics, now dropping explosives before incendiaries, hoping to make fire fighters lie low while fires caught on. For three bad nights in a row, the South Wales port of Swansea took a pasting. On two successive days...
...spring of 1917, a young man working in the Czar's War Department at St. Petersburg went to his office at the usual nine o'clock, and stayed till the usual five. All during the day he had been hearing vague rumors of troop movements, and after dinner he decided to go to a friend's house to get some definite news. He started out the door, but before he had taken many steps, the noise of a machine gun split the air; so he went back into the house and suppressed his curiosity for that evening. The next morning...