Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...from the point the Marines had reached in their southern drive before they were pulled out of line. Lieut. (j.g.) Don Loranger, our pilot this time, quickly spotted two tanks and a truck hidden away on a back road. With our wingman, Ensign Leo Profilet, we went in to attack...
...orders from Vice Admiral Charles Joy, who is MacArthur's Far East naval commander, and MacArthur takes his from the Chiefs of Staff. The carriers are commanded by folksy, twinkling Rear Admiral John ("Uncle John") Hoskins, who in World War II lost a foot in a Jap attack on the light carrier Princeton. Every Navy officer in the Pacific knows that Radford's appraising blue...
...watch, Radford persuaded his superiors to send him to sea, fought his first major action as commander of a carrier group in the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts (Tarawa-Makin). He had a prescient hunch that the Jap carriers, fed up with heavy daytime losses, would launch an attack at night. With Lieut. Commander Edward H. ("Butch") O'Hare, famed Congressional Medal winner, Radford worked out a radar-equipped night fighter system. When -sure enough-Jap torpedo planes were reported approaching after dusk, O'Hare took off with his bat team. Two of the approaching Japs were splashed...
...colonel in his book is. Do you know any non-bitter fighting soldiers or any one who was in Hürtgen [Forest] to the end who can love the authors of that national catastrophe which killed off the flower of our fighting men in a stupid frontal attack...
...dusk on June 26, 1862, General Robert E. Lee knew that his first major attack had ended in failure. Before him on the fields near Mechanicsville, Va. lay nearly 1,500 Confederate dead and wounded. McClellan's Army of the Potomac (casualties: 256) still stood intact, a menace to Richmond...