On 9 September 1945, Australian General Thomas Blamey accepted the surrender of the Japanese Second Army at a ceremony held on the I Corps' sports ground at Morotai.
Like a millennial Bernie Madoff, Martin Shkreli almost has to kite fraudulent stock deals and other dubious means of profit maximization to stave off the aggrieved corps of ground-floor investors he's accused of initially misleading and defrauding.
Yet the Corps seems on shakier ground than it has been for a long time, and deservedly so.
In the mid-1950s in Salisbury, Conn., he volunteered at age 15 to organize the ground observer corps, which watched for low-flying planes as part of civil defense efforts during the cold war.
The notion of nationwide observers might seem archaic, like the Ground Observer Corps watching for Soviet bombers in the 1950's, to generations that have grown used to satellite photography and snazzy television graphics and assume that the government collects everything electronically.
What was a Philadelphia girl (all her life) doing for the Ground Observer Corps seemingly headquartered at Mitchel Field, New York?
The United States Air Force, it seemed, was prepared to stage a sham atomic attack on New York City in order to demonstrate to the public why the nation could not be adequately defended from air attack without an organized ground-observer corps.
Boise State had 367 total yards Friday, 111 on the ground by its corps of three tailbacks.
The group represents the elite corps of black pilots and ground crew members who fought for the United States during World War II despite the country's active racial discrimination against them.
Corps member Troy Schumacher's Common Ground was, by far, the best, most revolutionary work of the evening.
The corps is strengthening some soil, by mixing cement deep into the ground.
