Word: ypres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ypres offensive in World War I, Wavell (a brigade major) lost his left eye. He tried concealing his blind eye with a monocle, later gave...
...Thirty-Seventh. Ohio is proud of its Buckeye National Guard Division, which fought in the last war at the Meuse-Argonne and Ypres-Lys. The 37th was federalized in 1940. Its commander was and still is Major General Robert S. Beightler, a civilian soldier, civil engineer and director of Ohio's State Highway Department...
...wearing well or if he would last. Of course he would last, why shouldn't he?" Only after a sergeant to whom Moran had denied sick leave blew his brains out, and the doctor had observed the corrosive effect of nearly a year in the Ypres salient, did he begin to learn what tricks war can play with men's minds, and that every soldier has his breaking point...
They had marched in triumph behind their bagpipes through the streets of Dieppe where 3,350 of their countrymen had fallen. They had cleared (and taken) not only Dieppe but Nieuport, Ostend and Zeebrugge. They had crossed the Somme, overrun Vimy Ridge and Ypres, where their fathers died. And now England, where they had spent four years of frustration, was immeasurably grateful to them because they had rolled up and tucked away the robot coast for good...
...Britain's "old contemptibles," from the France of Ypres and the Somme, heard that the armies and the fleets were crossing the Channel again, and said: "It must be something to see!" A G.I. from Cincinnati, left behind by history in Piccadilly Circus, heard the news and said: "When do the bars open? I want a drink...