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...command merges the Strategic Army Corps, composed of the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and the 4th Infantry Division, with the F-100 and F-105 fighter-bombers, reconnaissance aircraft and transports of the Tactical Air Command. In an emergency, the long-range planes of the Military Air Transport Service would deliver troops and supplies to a staging area overseas, where they would be shuttled into battle by the shorter-range transports of the new command. The new system, according to Pentagon estimates, will cut overseas deployment time by one-third, fly 1,800 paratroopers some 8,000 miles...
Impatiently plotting to get sprung from the Hoosick Falls (N.Y.) Health Center, where she has been temporarily inactivated for the past two months, Pastoral Painter Grandma Moses breezed past her latest birthday with one modest request, "I want my 101st to be the same as my first-very quiet...
Rinehart boned up by looking up old Taylor comrades in the 101st Airborne Division and reading not only Taylor's own book, but more than a thousand pages of military testimony before congressional committees. Then he set forth to interview his subject, who proved courteously cooperative-but busy. The very fact that made General Taylor cover-worthy this week-his role in the vital decision-making on Berlin-also made him inaccessible to interviewing for long stretches of time. Rinehart's final interview with Taylor was conducted at a brisk semi-dogtrot through Arlington National Cemetery. The general...
...chute harness and found himself surrounded by mildly curious cows. For 20 minutes, Taylor hunted frantically for his division. Finally he heard the click-click of the toy cricket that his paratroopers used to signal in the darkness. Taylor click-clicked back, jumped over a hedge and hugged a 101st G.I.-"the finest, most beautiful American soldier I've ever seen. A fine private with his bayonet fixed...
...Worried? Ironically, Taylor was back in the U.S. for consultation when his 101st faced its darkest moments of the war. Attacking in the last-ditch Battle of the Bulge, the Germans surrounded the division at Bastogne. When a delegation arrived to negotiate for the surrender of the 101st, Tony McAuliffe, the acting commander, became one of the most famous soldiers of World War II by firing back a one-word answer: "Nuts." Meanwhile, Taylor was frantically trying to get a plane ride back to Europe. "I've got 10,000 sons," he kept telling his wife, "and they...