Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. . . . No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around...
...ships, 11,000 planes, hundreds of thousands of men, machines, guns. Ike's Nature. The master of this titanic effort is a generally affable, obviously brainy, 53-year-old Midwestern American. As a professional soldier he is distinctly the command-and-staff rather than the warrior type. Ike Eisenhower never took a platoon or a company into battle. The smallest military organization he has ever commanded in actual combat was the Allied Expeditionary Force that went into French North Africa in November 1942. He has no specific battle experience remotely comparable to that of Britain's Generals Montgomery...
...during the night and early hours of the morning the first of a series of landings in force upon the European continent has taken place. So far, the commanders . . . report that everything is proceeding according to plan. And what a plan!" Several hours later, he was an even happier warrior: "There is very much less loss than we expected. . . . Many dangers . . . are behind us. This operation is proceeding in a thoroughly satisfactory manner...
...enemy turned old friend, as an Empire figure with a deep feeling for Britain, as a world figure with a heart proud of Britain's greatness, a mind ever probing into Britain's and the Empire's weaknesses. In his versatility this statesman, warrior, philosopher, orator, scientist, author had a quality of the Elizabethans. Britons thought of him as South Africa's late Governor General Sir Patrick Duncan had called him in the anxious days of 1941: "A great rock in a weary world...
...honored ranks of the warrior classes last week were admitted the little people of Japan, the ragged and hungry factory workers. It was an admission that this was total war, and all Japan was told that Bushido was not an exclusive spiritual cloak for those who fight; it was also for those who produce. Said Tokyo radio: "Step by step and moment by moment [the enemy] is approaching our mainland. . . . To support the spirit and follow the souls of the 4,500 men [on Tarawa and Makin] who preferred death to dishonor is the best way to fight...