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AMERICANS BREAK THROUGH HUERTGEN FOREST, LOOSENING NAZI GRIP ON COLOGNE APPROACHES (11/26/44)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 11/26/44 | Henry T. Gorrell, John H. Crider, Clifton Daniel, Frank L. Kluckhohn, Lindesay Parrott, more

Posted on 11/26/2014 4:19:39 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson

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To: PeterPrinciple

A little better info here. I don’t think he made the news for a long time.

http://www.wtj.com/articles/gabaldon/

..................Before leaving Saipan, I went to the Stockade to bid adios to the many people I knew there. There were actually hundreds who I had personally saved from sure death. One guy, Shimabukuro, was a special friend, and he had become my personal barber. “Guy-san, before you leave us, I want you to see someone here who you saved from jumping over the cliff. Do you remember that woman you grabbed right after she had thrown her baby to the rocks down below. The people who were there say that she screamed and fought you, but you held her down. Well, she lost her mind a few days after she was brought here to the stockade. It seems that when she realized that she had killed her child unnecessarily - that the Americans were not going to roast and eat the children - she became “hidari-maki” (lost her mind). Come I will take you to her.” There she sat, motionless, just staring straight ahead. My God, what a pathetic sight. I should have let her join her baby that day at the cliffs.
This was truly the horror of war.


21 posted on 11/26/2014 8:38:08 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Tax-chick

Nephew of Pinch the elder.


22 posted on 11/26/2014 8:39:25 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

I assume the notification that HQ SWPA opening on Leyte means Nimitz’ Graybook entries will no longer cover the operations in the Philippine Islands in great detail, as it’s not part of his Theater. I’m sure the fast carriers will continue to support MacArthu’s efforts with carrier raids.


23 posted on 11/26/2014 8:39:55 AM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: PeterPrinciple

I believe mules were also used in Burma. They were well-suited to the terrain, if not the climate.


24 posted on 11/26/2014 8:44:36 AM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: henkster
I assume the notification that HQ SWPA opening on Leyte means Nimitz’ Graybook entries will no longer cover the operations in the Philippine Islands in great detail, as it’s not part of his Theater.

I missed the significance of that entry. Too bad. I was interested in watching the casualty reports for Leyte that have been appearing on the Nimitz diary entries. My father will be among the MIA reported in December.

25 posted on 11/26/2014 8:47:09 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

I didn’t know that was where this was going.


26 posted on 11/26/2014 8:51:31 AM PST by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: PeterPrinciple

What a great Marine as well as a great and compassionate man...may he rest in peace.


27 posted on 11/26/2014 9:00:34 AM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Lazamataz
Where’s Deep In The Heurtgen Forest when you need him?

BWAAA HAAA HAA HA, there's a blast from the past:-)

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

28 posted on 11/26/2014 9:11:29 AM PST by alfa6 (Freedom is not free Free men are not equal Equal men are not free)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Thanks.


29 posted on 11/26/2014 9:15:16 AM PST by Tax-chick (Get out of my vegetable soup! Get out of my low-sodium chili!)
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To: Lazamataz

Probably hanging-out with a classy green-eyed blonde.


30 posted on 11/26/2014 9:43:58 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Tax-chick

“Arthur Ochs “Punch” Sulzberger, Sr. (February 5, 1926 – September 29, 2012) was an American publisher and businessman. Born into a prominent media and publishing family, he became publisher of The New York Times and chairman of the board of The New York Times Company in 1963. He relinquished to his son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., the office of publisher in 1992, and chairman in 1997.

Punch (not Pinch) is the dad. Jr. took over in 1997.

Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II (October 27, 1912 – September 20, 1993) was an American journalist, diarist, and non-fiction writer. He was a member of the family that owned The New York Times and he was that newspaper’s lead foreign correspondent during the 1940s and 1950s.

The son of Cyrus L. “Leo” Sulzberger and nephew of Arthur Hays Sulzberger [Sr.],


31 posted on 11/26/2014 12:41:57 PM PST by Steven Scharf
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To: alfa6

Very informative. Thanks.


32 posted on 11/26/2014 12:53:25 PM PST by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Where is DITHF when we need him? Probably hiding out with Quidam.

Let me say, because I have never posted to one of these threads, how great they are and how much I appreciate being able to read them.


33 posted on 11/26/2014 12:56:49 PM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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Let me say, because I have never posted to one of these threads, how great they are and how much I appreciate being able to read them.

Thank you! You make my day.

34 posted on 11/26/2014 1:00:37 PM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Steven Scharf

Thank you. Confusing batch of people with big WASP names ;-).


35 posted on 11/26/2014 1:27:59 PM PST by Tax-chick (Three more days to get ready for the Advent Kitteh!)
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To: Tax-chick; Steven Scharf
Confusing batch of people with big WASP names

W, definitely. Not so sure about the ASP.

36 posted on 11/26/2014 1:44:25 PM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

“Sulzberger” sounds pretty Germanic.


37 posted on 11/26/2014 2:00:47 PM PST by Tax-chick (Three more days to get ready for the Advent Kitteh!)
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To: Tax-chick

Not WASPs

“He was born on February 5, 1926, in New York City to Jewish parents Arthur Hays Sulzberger and Iphigene Bertha Ochs “


38 posted on 11/26/2014 3:42:05 PM PST by Steven Scharf
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To: Steven Scharf

“Arthur Hays” doesn’t sound like a recent German immigrant, no matter what his last name is.


39 posted on 11/26/2014 4:17:54 PM PST by Tax-chick (Three more days to get ready for the Advent Kitteh!)
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