Word: unite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their faces were daubed with red, black, green and white war paint, their heads shorn except for a scalp lock. They squatted and waited before an incongruous background : a flying field in the smiling English hills. There were 13 men in this unique parachute unit - twelve Apaches, Mohaves, Navahos, Creeks, Blackfeet, Hopis, and one youngster from Brooklyn who "had become a tribesman by the ancient ceremonial of cutting a finger and mingling his blood with that of an Apache. Beyond the standard paratrooper's armament, they carried the most bizarre equipment ever seen in modern Europe, including nylon...
...Right. After the fall of Rome, Alexander smashed the German right with a brilliant trick. Through the tired formations of the Allied Fifth Army he secretly slipped an entirely fresh unit-the 6th South African Armored Division (veterans of Ethiopia and East Africa). The maneuver was a stunning success. The exhausted German Fourteenth Army collapsed before the new well-organized strength...
Returning from a seven-day furlough between terms, the unit of ASTP trainees will begin the long grind of classes this week. The ASTP unit finds itself reduced in number by the loss of the company of 17-year-old army reservists. Transferred out, most of the reservists will soon find themselves going through the paces of basic training...
...Service Command as head of the Departments of Internal Security and of Military Intelligence; Lieutenant-Commander Richard C. Harlow, formerly head football coach at Harvard, now serving with the Navy and Lieutenant Thomas D. Bolles formerly Varsity crew coach here, currently serving as Executive Officer of the V-12 unit at Duke University...
From a tank-destroyer unit's invasion base in England, he reported a conversation with Sergeant Dick Showalter, a gun-crew commander from Muncie, Ind. Wrote Correspondent Pyle...