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Word: killeen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Spark-Plug. When the chief WAC was a little girl in curls, she read aloud from the Congressional Record to her father, Lawyer Isaac William Culo. of Killeen, Tex. She thought at first she would like to be a foreign missionary. Later she thought she might go on the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Hobby's Army | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...Tank Destroyer Command-at Killeen, Tex., under Major General Andrew D. Bruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Prelude to Battle | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...practically all the specialized training camps of the West. He spent three days at the glider Air Academy at Twentynine Palms -going up with the students, getting the dope on equipment, organization, training. He jolted around with the Army's new tank destroyer corps at Camp Hood in Killeen, Texas, where they had to move a cemetery to get the site they wanted. In the California desert at Indio (very hot in the shade and no shade) he saw our new desert warfare battalions being whipped into shape, heard General Patton applying the lessons our side has learned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 29, 1942 | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

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