Word: commandos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 27, Congressional Medal of Honor winner (for killing 40 Nazis in one action), and May Frances Boish Kelly, 21: their second child, first son; in Pittsburgh. Name: Charles Jr. Weight...
...soldier. But Tu ran away, entered Whampoa Military Academy, and graduated with the first class, in 1924. A vigorous sportsman in peacetime-he likes to hunt wild asses from horseback in the Gobi-Tu is also an accomplished paratrooper. He got his training from OSS experts training Commando troops in Kunming...
Dignitaries and former Resistance leaders last week plodded across muddy fields to the remote hamlet of Bruneval in Normandy. There, at a ceremony to honor a British commando raid, Charles de Gaulle came out of retirement and opened a campaign to recapture power...
James Biggar, manager of caretaking, also labled Yard security top secret, but was clearly not inclined to fiddle while College grass plots burn. His men are primed for a repetition of the November 14 Yale commando raid on Princeton, which included burning a large "Y" on the lawn of the Nassau...
...continued the training begun by him were imprisoned. In the spring of 1941, when the services of Haganah were again required, these men were released and the British themselves took over the training of a large group of men to create an effective military force for secret commando operations. Men and women of the Palmach undertook many missions for the British during the war. Hannah Szenesh was but one of the many who gave their lives...