Word: unite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Huddled in a landing barge at Guadalcanal, a unit of the Army Airways Communications System prepared to shove off. Their destination was a New Georgia landing strip recently clawed from Jap hands. Their mission, performed last summer but described by the Air Forces only recently, was to install a radio station for the guidance of Allied planes...
Changes in the officers assigned to the A.S.T.P. unit here were announced today. Capt. Warren Davidson has been replaced by Capt. James D. Olson as Commander of Company C, while Lt. Walter Gieber's former post of Classification Officer is now being filled by Lt. John S. Fulcher...
...announced last night that James Heilbrun '46, of the V-12 unit, will replace Frederic de Hoffmann '45, as chairman of the Harvard Council on Post-War Problems. De Hoffmann is leaving this week to enter government work...
...Blow That Failed. The Partisans had a hard week. Tito threw a unit of his fighters, scantily equipped with captured Nazi and Italian tanks and artillery, against Banja Luka-a rail terminus, communications center, headquarters of the Second Tank Army. After three days of fighting Tito reported that the Partisans had taken half the town, were moving through it block by block. Then the Germans rushed tanks and reinforcements from the northeast. Short of munitions, the Partisans had to pull...
...erect, well-dressed girls drawn up for parade. In the clammy English dawn, she saw WACs in maroon bathrobes (with boy friends' unit insignia sewn on their sleeves) dashing from tin barracks and scuttling across the mud-heading for the "ablution hut" to start the day with a shivery washup...