Word: 45th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible. When replacements were desperately needed in Korea, a good many specialized officers and noncoms were taken from small, unassigned outfits and from the two divisions in strategic reserve (the 31st and 47th). But the other Guard divisions on active duty -the 40th and 45th (in Japan) and the 43rd and 28th (assigned to Europe) have been trained as units and left intact. Nearly all the troops taken from these four combat divisions were draftees, not Guardsmen...
David Sarnoff, board chairman of Radio Corporation of America, celebrated his 45th anniversary in radio last week and told his research scientists what new inventions he would like to see them develop in the next five years: ¶ A device to amplify light the way a loudspeaker amplifies sound, to make television pictures both bigger and brighter without reducing their quality. Suggested name: "Magnalux." ¶ A way to record television programs on inexpensive tape. Suggested name: "Videograph." ¶ An electronic air conditioner with no motor, pump or other moving parts. Specifications: cheap, noiseless, and small enough to be used...
Full Quota. At Camp Strong, Japan, after he received a recruiting folder informing him that he would win a medal if he could sign up a few men for a state militia unit in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 45th Division Sergeant Gene Evans wrote back that he had signed up his whole company (mostly from Tulsa), was awaiting transfer orders...
...Rechristened "45th Infantry...
...part of the Defense Secretary's job to keep in daily contact with secret intelligence reports, and busy with strategic problems. The public is left with only hints and glimmers of responses to critical situations. It learned, for example, that two National Guard divisions, the 40th and the 45th, embarked last week for Japan-the first Guard divisions to be sent overseas. They were being rushed off before they had finished their training. The public was also aware, but only vaguely, of big Russian concentrations in Manchuria and on Sakhalin island: a Russian assault on Japan might...