Word: unite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Final Score. When the rest of the unit reached the hilltop, they counted 58 dead Japs, three enemy knee mortars, two heavy and one light machine guns, 80 rifles, hundreds of grenades. All in all, it was the kind of performance that causes talk. Some it caused...
Salvadoran Army officers tried to topple El Salvador's new up-&-coming Government last week. Into President Salvador Castaneda Castro's office stalked 100 Army officers. They demanded a governmental shakeup, including Army autonomy. Castaneda promised to consider their demands. That night, he ordered loyal Army units to arrest suspected officers. As one unit moved up on Ilopango airfield, two rebel planes took off. Loyal antiaircraft fire hit the first plane's gas tank. The plane crashed in flames. The pilot and the gunner were killed...
...under the Army's mammoth post-V-E education program for servicemen & women temporarily stranded in Europe (TIME, Oct. 16). To keep everybody busy, the program includes every phase of education, from vocational training to graduate courses in universities like Cambridge and the Sorbonne. But unit command schools (established by battalions) like St. Germain's form by far the biggest part of the pro gram. By August i there will be one such school for every 1,000 soldiers. Every soldier who is not assigned to urgent duty will be required to attend for two hours...
...China Convoy (Friends Ambulance Unit) was formed in 1941 by 40 young Britons released from military service as conscientious objectors. They learned that ambulances in China could not evacuate the wounded because no roads ran to the front. They also discovered that lack of transportation was keeping China's tiny stock of medical supplies bottled up in Kunming. The FAU promptly got hold of 25 trucks to keep the supplies moving to short-stocked hospitals...
China's rugged mountains were more than a match for FAU's trucks, and a single trip of 300 miles sometimes took 40 days & nights. Through necessity, members of the Unit became expert mechanics. When gasoline got scarce, they laboriously converted their fleet to charcoal...