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  • This is the spot where I really want to jump up in the air and click my heels, and start screaming and shouting Woo-hoo, and lip synching the Caisson Song - well, maybe not the latter -- and be very happy and admiring.

    mrissa: Wobbly but pleased. mrissa 2010

  • For us, they fought and died in places like Concord and Gettysburg, Normandy and Caisson.

    CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2009 2009

  • In the last century, when we sent our sons off to places like the Nang and Caisson, to Pork Chop Hill or to the beaches of Normandy, it was with them that that idea went.

    CNN Transcript - Special Event: Bauer: 'I'm Withdrawing From the Contest for the Republican Presidential Nomination' - February 4, 2000 2000

  • Material on early use of compressed air and resulting cases of caisson sickness is from The Effects of High Atmospheric Pressure, Including the Caisson Disease by Andrew H. Smith, M.D., pp.

    The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

  • That night George Templeton Strong, the noted diarist of the time, wrote, Caisson of the East River bridge was severely damaged by fire yesterday.

    The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

  • Caisson—Ammunition wagon, normally four-wheeled at this period.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • Caisson—Ammunition wagon, normally four-wheeled at this period.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • The military services had their own songs: The Marines 'Hymn of 1848, the Navy's "Anchors Aweigh" of 1906, the Army had used "The Caisson Song" since 1918, the Coast Guard adopted "Semper Paratus" in 1922, and the Army Air Force song in 1939. from Armed Guard by Thomas R Bowerman

    Heave Ho! My Lads, Heave Ho! Jack Lawrence 1943

  • The military services had their own songs: The Marines 'Hymn of 1848, the Navy's "Anchors Aweigh" of 1906, the Army had used "The Caisson Song" since 1918, the Coast Guard adopted "Semper Paratus" in 1922.

    The Army Air Corps March Robert M. Crawford 1939

  • Gen. Hap Arnold did not believe the Army's Caisson song lyrics, "the army goes rolling along," were suitable for his Air Corps.

    The Army Air Corps March Robert M. Crawford 1939

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