Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offensive backfield is a versatile, hardhitting unit which includes, in addition to Kazmaier,. Boston University's passing ace, Harry Agganis; Holy Cross' Chuck Maloy, slick ball handler and T quarterback; and Burt Talmadge, a driving halfback who averaged about six years a try for unbeaten Bucknell. --from the Boston Dally Record...
...Cross mobile blood unit will be set up at Memorial Hall this morning to been five days of bloodletting, following P.B.H.'s door-to-door student pledge campaign which netted over 3,000 student donations...
...sharpest fight of the week was fought for possession of a hill mass near Yonchon, from which the guardian searchlights at Panmunjom could be seen at night. The high ground which a U.S. unit held controlled wide reaches of surrounding lowland, and was essential to any attack along the Yonchon route. By week's end, correspondents were calling it "Little Gibraltar" or "Armistice Ridge." Apparently the Chinese wanted it inside their lines before the negotiators at Panmunjom finished plotting the line of contact...
...their positions, killing 33, wounding 34, and capturing 407, including the commanding officer, Lieut. Colonel James P. Carne. On board the Empire Fowey, there were only 15 survivors of that battle. By special permission of the King, the Gloucesters wore the blue and gold emblem of the U.S. Distinguished Unit Citation, but few of them had decorations for individual exploits. Explained a battalion officer: "I'd start to write a man up for the Military Cross and then I'd get to thinking about what the chaps did at the Imjin. It just didn't seem proper...
Norm Shepard's Crimson team looked improved in its first outside scrimmage. A unit of five sophomores worked well together, and the squad's offense in general outstripped its defense...