Word: 44th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week, sergeants' whistles shrilled in Fort Dix. By midnight, trucks and guns were rumbling past the flat Jersey fields; by noon the 44th Division (New York and New Jersey National Guard) was well south of Washington...
...furloughs had just been summarily postponed. The 44th had got the rush act for a warlike job. It was disposed in the famed cockpit of the Civil War, in Virginia, where Lee, Jackson and Grant had sparred and pounced. The 44th's job: to take Fredericksburg, defended by a regular outfit whose size the 44th did not know...
...Sunday, the 44th rested, prowled the Virginia towns, roamed through Fredericksburg's National Military Cemetery, where 15,000 Civil War soldiers (12,000 marked "unknown") lie under prim headstones. But there was no day of rest for the officer responsible for the maneuver: Major General Lesley James McNair, Chief of Staff of the Army's General Headquarters. He headed back to Washington, got busy again in his office, overlooking the campus-like lawn of the Army War College on the Potomac...
...44th Division tort...
Pebble Beach, the golf course laid out along Carmel Bay on California's windswept Monterey Peninsula, has tricky traps, yawning water hazards and yapping sea lions which have plagued the world's best golfers. There last week 164 golferines gathered for the 44th U. S. Women's Amateur. To make the course less formidable, four of its holes had been shortened-paring 113 yards off the dog-tiring, 6,661-yd. course...