Word: 101st
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...General Westmoreland [Cover, Feb. 19] is a soldier's soldier. Give him the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and you'll see an end to this nonsense. HARRY W. ROSENTHAL Captain, Army of the U.S. (ret.) Millburn...
While Westmoreland was commanding the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky., in 1958, he led a routine paratroop drop that turned to tragedy when the winds shifted. Five men were dragged to their death, one when the wind caught his grounded chute and swept him over a cliff. Westmoreland pitched in to help the wounded, from that day on refused to give the go-ahead for a drop until he had jumped first and had time to gauge the wind...
Last Battle. The conflict between Taylor and Khanh is partly one of principle, partly one of personality. A soldier for 40 years, Taylor led the 101st Airborne Division at Normandy, was superintendent of West Point, commanded U.S. troops in postwar Berlin and during the Korean war. In 1959, he quit as Army Chief of Staff because President Eisenhower's defense advisers, sold on the massive-retaliation theory, ignored his demands for a "flexible defense" capable of handling everything down to limited guerrilla actions. President Kennedy called him back to duty in 1961, made him his personal military adviser, then...
...from his Sherman tank, chomping on a huge cigar, and rally his tankers with his war cry: "Attack! Attack! Attack!" Said Abrams: "I like to get out on the point where there's nothing but me and the goddam Germans and we can fight by ourselves." When the 101st Airborne was surrounded at the Battle of the Bulge, Abrams led the relief column into Bastogne, later led the dash to the Rhine...
...went around to see several units of the 101st Airborne Division, and the paratroopers told him not to worry: they would button things up on arrival in France. As they took off, "I watched them out of sight," Ike told Cronkite, who asked if it were true that tears had been observed in his eyes. "It could have been possible," said Ike. "Goodness knows those fellows meant...