Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blessing by the Pope, but it sounded strange other than as a good-will gesture toward what remains of France. Marshal Petain, 84, brought up in the Catholic faith, has never been renowned for his devotion. Once he said that he would rather be buried in the battlefield of Verdun than in the hallowed ground of a churchyard...
General Marshall last week said that the Army by next October will have in hand enough equipment to train (but not to put on the battlefield) at least 300,000 conscripts. A Defense Commission spokesman announced that the 15,000 Army planes, 4,000 Navy planes which Mr. Roosevelt had just asked for should be turned out by July...
...while the odor for a time became almost unbearable, the end result was nearly always satisfactory. Last week the British Lancet said nothing about a heroic stench, said flatly that results of the Barcelona method have been so good in Flanders that from now on suturing applied on the battlefield must be considered "almost criminal...
...enormous complexity of a modern army that training, beginning at the bottom, must be carried through all the possible combinations of echelons and of forces which a modern battlefield comprises...
...abdominal ailment; in Philadelphia. Oft-decorated, multi-nicknamed General Butler, at 37 the youngest Marine officer ever to win the rank of brigadier general, fought in 14 battles and skirmishes, earned a legendary reputation for reckless bravery. His barrackroom language got him into more trouble than did his battlefield impetuosity. In 1930 he was almost court-martialed for calling Premier Mussolini a "hit-and-run driver." Retired, General Butler lectured for peace, published a book entitled War Is a Racket, advocated complete U. S. isolation coupled with an ironclad defense a rat couldn't crawl through...