Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ribbons, Medals, Stars. The marks of Marine training and tradition glittered in four gay ranks from the Commandant's blouse as he welcomed the new boss this week: the Navy Cross won as a battle commander in World War I; a star-studded Victory Medal; a parti-colored array of ribbons showing service in China, Cuba, the Philippines and other odd corners of the earth where Marines served and fought while the world was technically at peace; the gold and enamel medal of the distinguished marksman...
...formalities--a sort of dishwater affair about a soldier of 1918 vintage, his son, a girl or two, and some other people we didn't happen to notice. But despite the Hollywood additions, "This Is the Army" is still a stage show, a great spectacle with a top-notch array of talent. The soldier cherns makes like Fred Waring only better, and many of the individual stars are superb...
With grand strategy fixed at Quebec, it was evident in the President's doings that he was now occupied with actual tactics, military, diplomatic and political. Foremost in the array of tactical problems before him was personnel in his top command. In this area he made changes and moves of transcendent importance. In certain of these changes Harry Hopkins' influence was plain...
...Cheered speeches by a glittering array of bigwigs, including General George C. Marshall, Admiral Ernest J. King, Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley. They also heard A.F. of L. President William Green, who stoutly defended organized labor's no-strike record...
Dispatches from India noted the drying up in Burma of the monsoon rains. Over the radio crackled the words of Sir Rich ard Peirse, Commander in Chief of the British Air Force in India: "We stand in battle array, not only ready to meet the enemy, but waiting to go out and find him. . . . We have covered the face of India with airfields." Brigadier General Caleb V. ("Old Grizzly") Haynes, reviewing the job he has done in directing U.S. air attacks from India, declared that Burma was no fortress, that Japanese facilities in the country had been "pulverized...