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...from the start. At West Point ('36) he was a track and basketball star and First Captain of Cadets. A full colonel at 29, he commanded field artillery in World War II (North Africa, Germany) and paratroops in Korea, taught at the Army War College, took over the 101st Airborne Division in 1958. The very model of a modern major general, he made a habit of jumping before his men, is known as a soldier whose mind and manner are ingrained with a general's supreme necessity, "the habit of command...
...biggest airborne attack of all time, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery had high hopes of hurdling the river barriers to outflank the Siegfried Line and thus end the war in Europe by a single-front thrust. Operation Market Garden failed. Though the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions won their objectives, the British ist Airborne met disaster, was chopped to ribbons by two German Panzer divisions in one of the European Theater's sharpest setbacks along the road to victory...
...places. In the battle's first hours, between 0015 and 0900, the Allies won three quick successes. On the left flank the British 6th Airborne Division achieved complete tactical surprise, wiped out German positions east of the Orne River. On the right flank the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, although badly scattered in the airdrop, outfought three German divisions, suffering 2,500 casualties. Shielded by this U.S. airborne success, the U.S. 4th Infantry Division swept ashore soon after the first light on Utah Beach, swamped the defenses at a cost of only 197 casualties...
...birth announcements last week of an integrated 150,000-man force, set up to handle small war situations ranging from street riots to a second Korea. Name of force: Strategic Army Corps, or STRAC. Motto: Skilled, Tough. Ready Around the Clock. Composition of force: paratroops of the 82nd and 101st Airborne...
...height of September's riots over the admission of nine Negro students to Central High, 1,000 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division were flown into Little Rock to keep order, and 10,000 Arkansas National Guardsmen were federalized to help them. Gradually, the paratroops were withdrawn and the majority of guardsmen demobilized. President Eisenhower's new order affects only 360 National Guard enlisted men and 40 officers still federalized and still on duty at Central High School to bar agitators and prevent incidents among the 2,000 students. Last week, as the last 400 guardsmen prepared...