Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wake of the far-ranging planes, British armor attacking the German column on its flanks cracked off segments of it and pinned them against the sea. Slain was monocled George Stumme, second in command to Rommel. In the midst of one melee, when a man darted from a crippled Nazi armored car, a British Hussar leaped from his tank and collared him. "I am a general," the captive said severely. He was Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Commander of the Afrika Korps...
...little school was giving a good account of itself beyond, the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia. Seventy of his boys, nearly a third of all who have graduated from his junior college, went off to fight for their country. One, Marine Elza O'Neal, was captured on Wake Island ("Send more Japs"); another, Lieut. William R. Ussery, was killed in action in a plane in the Pacific; a third, Lieut. Denver Truelove, flew with Jimmy Doolittle to bomb Tokyo...
...Wake Island (Brian Donlevy, Albert Dekker, Macdonald Carey, Robert Preston, William Bendix; TIME, Sept...
...marines and construction workers captured at Wake Island last December, the Japanese gave printed instructions. The rules, exactly as typed by the Japs...
...Wake Island (Brian Donlevy, Albert Dekker, Macdonald Carey, Robert Preston, William Bendix; TIME, Sept...