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...Candidate Walker, he was an excellent combat officer. He had a distinguished record in World War II and Korea, commanded 101st Airborne Division and National Guard troops during the Little Rock school crisis. Last year, as commander of the 24th Infantry Division in West Germany, he put on a troop indoctrination program that got him in hot water. In speeches he labeled Harry Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt and Dean Acheson as "definitely pink." His "pro-blue" instruction program urged troops to vote for conservative candidates back home. Officially admonished and transferred to a command in Hawaii, Walker bitterly resigned from...
...that, the paratroopers began a show that wowed the President and his party. After fighter-bombers had seared a jump area with Napalm and blasted it with 500-lb. bombs, six C-130 transports lumbered overhead at 1,250 ft.-and the sky turned alive with paratroopers from the 101st Airborne, the sister division of the 82nd. Behind the men floated the equipment of war-a 105-mm. howitzer, a self-propelled antitank gun, an 18,000-Ib. bulldozer dangling from six 100-ft. chutes that blossomed like giant flowers...
...elite of the Stateside divisions are the 4th Infantry and the all-volunteer 82nd and 101st Airborne, which make up the Strategic Army Corps, the combat-ready reserve that would be thrown into battle wherever it might break out around the world...
...Fort Campbell, Ky., the 101st Airborne is as ready to go as a sprinter braced on the starting blocks. Everything the division owns can be carried by air except the barracks: 25-ton M41 tanks, antitank guns, Jeeps, the "mechanical mule" (a kind of motorized flatbed wagon), field kitchens, ground radar, and the 15-mile Honest John rocket, which can be fitted with a nuclear warhead. One company (300 men) is always ready to move out within an hour; an entire battle group (1,800 men) can be on its way in four. Every morning, every man on alert assumes...
...When the 101st Airborne was surrounded at the Battle of the Bulge, Abrams led the relief column into Bastogne with an attack that was watched with un abashed professional admiration by Panzer Commander Fritz Bayerlein. Later, Abrams led the dash to the Rhine, moved so fast that he captured an astonished lieutenant general and his staff at their desks. Fighting far out in front of the Third Army, Abrams was frequently cut off. "They've got us surrounded again," he once said, "those poor bastards." Said General George Patton of his aggressive tank commander: "I'm supposed...