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...caves with flamethrowers. While they were at the bloody business, many of them were cut down by machine-gun and mortar fire. The division's 1st Regiment soon suffered 60% casualties. After ten days the marines had occupied five-sixths of the 2-by-6-mile island. Interim score: 7,313 Jap dead. Still to go: about 3,200 (estimated strength of the original garrison was upped from...
...plus-85 General Dwight D. Eisenhower drew up an interim report on the Battle of France...
...siege has no connection whatsoever with the postponement of elections. The former will be an act of military necessity to facilitate the task of the Allied Supreme Command in every possible way. Popular elections will be held as soon as the Civil Election Registers are recompiled. In the interim, moreover, the entire Cabinet will resign upon arrival in The Netherlands so that any changes, compatible with the public will at the moment, may at once be made...
...commission can act only in an advisory capacity in settling international disputes. As a guidepost, it will point the direction for oil industries to follow until a proposed world conference replaces this interim agreement by a treaty among other interested nations...
...Lear, a crack training man who was on the point of retirement for age, took over McNair's command in the interim, later took a desk job. Canadian-born Ben Lear came up from the ranks (enlisting in 1898 for the Spanish-American war). As Army-wise as a rolling caisson, Ben Lear would give uncompromising stability to the ground forces command on the home front...