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...what I aim to keep on doing." Said onetime Fusilier Graves: "This is no time to persuade the British public . . . that British greed and tyranny had solidly united the thirteen colonies in a white-hot fury of revolution. . . . The broadcast account of Breed's Hill, popularly miscalled Bunker Hill,† was beautifully and comprehensively inexact...
Other entertainment will be supplied, by CBS's feminine singing star, Lee Nash and the newly formed Regimental Trio, featuring Jack Kelley on the tenor sax. The Ball, which will take place on Bunker Hill Day, will mark the first time that the students of the Supply Schools have organized a dance designed to bring officers and future officers together in a formal event of their...
Perhaps nowhere else in the U.S. are the makings of this latest war shaped so fully within sight of a past American battleground. No tourist may now climb to the top of Bunker Hill's grey shaft: he might see too much going on in the Charlestown Navy Yard below. Once it required a poet's fancy to make the shots at Concord's rude bridge heard round the world. Now, ten miles away, ammunition is being fashioned that will literally be heard the world around...
...cautious, catlike approach that a few marines make, across the open sand, to a blasted revetment which may still hold Japanese life, American death. There is the attempt on the part of a few others, as careful and painful as the probing of a complex wound, to climb a bunker and clean out its far side with rifles, flamethrowers, grenades. There is the weird, exquisite variety of individual expressions of skill and fear, which are the cross-texture of the violence of combat. Smoke, ruined palms, a boundless sense of death choke the screen. Men quickly fire into blindness, take...
Wonderful town, Boston. Monuments and landmarks everywhere--Bunker Hill, McBride's, and Sally Keith's tassels. However, even Bunker Hill closes down...