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Mary Patricia Chalifoux went to Montreal with her two children to begin a vigil. Her husband, Dieppe-Raider D'Amour Chalifoux, is in a Nazi prison camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE DOMINION: New Wives | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...faded blue skies over the Marshalls, death kept a steady vigil. Swarms of Zeros raced up to meet the U.S. raiders. Japanese gunnery improved. (Commented a U.S. general dryly: "Jap gunners are getting more practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Deadly Dividends | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...Company Dog girds its loins and strides on in its vigil to keep John Harvard's Yard secure, it becomes increasingly apparent that the Company smoker Friday will not be amiss. The smoker can be sandwiched in between watches very nicely, albeit the Hasty Pudding Club is barred...

Author: By Ens. R. D. semple, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 8/24/1943 | See Source »

...Night Vigil. At 9:30 Captain Alan Morehouse, once a schoolteacher in Darien, Conn., led 90 men of K Company out on the road and headed over the slope of our hill down into a ravine and up toward another hill in front of Troina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: THE FALL OF TROINA | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...rain stepped greying Coroner Dr. A. Magruder McDonald. In the dim-lit vestibule a dozen reporters sat on death watch for the eight submarine-borne Nazi saboteurs. Some of them had waited more than 24 hours. The Coroner had nothing to say. But his mere presence told them their vigil would soon be over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Death for the Saboteurs | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

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