Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Operatic Operation. In South Africa, twelve soldiers, each from a different unit, were individually assigned to do a special job, arrived to find there were two Vissers, two Johnsons, two Van der Merwes, two MacDonalds, two Van Wyks, and one Gilbert. Five pairs plus Gilbert waited nervously for No. Twelve to turn...
...Adriatic side of the-front Lieut. General Richard L. McCreery's Eighth Army, soldiers of five different nations in the van, struck from the Senio River across the Santerno and then the Sillaro. The Germans gave ground carefully, holding village strongpoints until the last. By week's end the Eighth had driven farther into the Po basin and was reaching to link up with the Americans below Bologna...
Honorable mentions went to Charles Wagner, Miss Jacqucline Stenier, Miss E. P. van Bureu, Reuben Hersh, and James Boyce. The winning manuscripts are being considered for publication in Wake...
...Hundreds of crates and boxes-a huge cache of priceless works of art; Rembrandts, Raphaels, Renoirs, Dürers, Van Dycks; tapestries and engravings; a Titian Venus; original Goethe manuscripts...
...recovered other art treasures the Nazis removed from bombed German cities, possibly from French museums. Chief item: the famed, gold-and-jeweled "Reliquary of the Magi" sarcophagus from the Cologne Cathedral. Other items: the bones of Charlemagne, a magnificent carved door from Cologne's Cathedral, paintings by Holbein, Van Gogh, Rubens...