Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alexandria, Va...
Like Bunker Hill & Gettysburg. When they sailed from Norfolk, Va. the marines had never heard of Guadalcanal. Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, who had by then taken over the division, had been given almost no time for practice, planning and staging. On Aug. 7, 1942, the marines went ashore on Guadal, without meeting resistance. The only first-day casualty was a leatherneck who cut himself trying to open a coconut...
...Half an hour out of Tokyo, a C-47 Army transport with 26 men aboard crashed into the sea. Among the 25 lost were four war correspondents bound for the front: James 0. Supple, 34, of the Chicago Sun-Times; Albert Hinton, 46, of the Norfolk (Va.) Journal and Guide and other Negro papers ; Stephen Simmons, 32, of Britain's Hulton Press (Picture Post) ; and Maximilien Philonenko, 33, of the French Press Agency...
Died. Paul Raymond Mallon, 49, onetime Washington columnist, whose syndicated "News Behind the News" was read by millions; of a heart ailment; in Alexandria, Va. He retired in midcareer, wound up his last column (Sept. 16, 1947) with: "Don't you think a lot more people ought to go fishing...
...time war came, friendly, fresh-faced Newsman Fielder had moved on, was working on the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps as a private early in 1942, was soon commissioned and assigned to train officer candidates at Quantico, Va. Later, he was given command of a company of the sth Marine Division. Then the Marine Corps assigned Captain Fielder to perfect his Chinese at the University of California. When World War II ended, Fielder went back to his true calling, took a job as night city editor for the Associated Press in San Francisco, hoping...