Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third reason is the weapons with which the Japs packed Iwo. The beaches were not so easily defended as the rocks and ravines to the north. Yet an incomplete count on the 4th Division's 1,500-yd. beach alone scored ten blockhouses, seven artillery positions, more than 50 pillboxes (the total of pillboxes on Iwo will run into the thousands). The Japs had planted many mints-more than they had in all the rest of their lost islands...
When Italy stabbed France in the back in 1940, Ambassador André François-Poncet told Mussolini's Foreign Minister and son-in-law, Count Ciano: "Remember, France is immortal! You will pay for this...
...simplest and most direct way possible, Senator Taft told his colleagues that he was against Henry Wallace on any count; the fact that the George bill would take the vast federal lending agencies away, did not make Wallace a better man than he was before...
...German Officers. It consists of German officers and soldiers captured by the Russians at Stalingrad and elsewhere. Its most publicized leaders were Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, who commanded the German armies at Stalingrad; General Walther von Seydlitz, commander of the German LI Army Corps at Stalingrad; Lieut. Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, great-grandson of Otto von Bismarck...
Died. Alexey Nicholayevich Tolstoy, 62, long-haired, beret-wearing, best-selling Russian writer (Peter the Great, Darkness and Dawn), remote kinsman of the late great Leo Tolstoy; from a lung ailment; in Moscow. A Tsarist count, he renounced his title to become the Soviet's most enthusiastic propagandist and richest citizen (estimated fortune...