Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President watched the world. Daily he scanned maps. For three weeks he has discussed battlefield contours in military detail with U.S. experts; again & again they have whistled respectfully at his apparent knowledge of Flanders-hills, creeks, towns, bridges. The President's particular forte is islands: he is said to know every one in the world, its peoples, habits, population, geography, economic life. When a ship sank off Scotland several months ago, experts argued: Had the ship hit a rock or had it been torpedoed? The President pondered latitude & longitude, said: "It hit a rock. They ought to have seen...
...indications came from the White House that the President had found his paragon, it dawned on some Republicans last week that at last they had an Issue. For seven years, while the New Deal juggernaut squnched over the political battlefield, the G. O. P. had vainly whipped up little issues, had vainly sought an issue that would stand up under fire. The G. O. P. popgun fusillade was futile, their cannons fired only blanks, their bombers dropped duds or boomerangs...
What made the German Army perform as it did was primarily a matter of its leaders' brains and its nation's morale, secondarily a matter of weapons. In 1870, 1914 and, according to battlefield evidence, 1940, French Army leadership, canopied by a great weight of professional autocracy, was smothered by routine thought, opposition to change. The French Army's ranks were filled by democrats who did not like to think of war until they had to, were prone to dodge conscription, soldier through their training period...
During bloody World War I, Surgeon Kenneth Macfarlane Walker was a captain in Great Britain's Army Medical Corps. Statistically-minded, he noted that a third of the battlefield dead died of chest wounds, that as few as 3% of chest-wound victims reached a dressing station alive. Reason: even a tiny fragment of bomb or shell, piercing the chest cavity, can easily rip a large blood vessel, bring quick death...
...Johnson Jr. Captain (Marine Corps Reserve) Johnson wants the Army to buy a semi-automatic rifle which he has designed. The Army has tested the Johnson rifle, says the Garand is better, has not published enough comparative data to prove or disprove its statement. "Ideal for combat and for battlefield firing," Major General Walter C. Short called the Garand last week, reporting its performance in Army maneuvers. Expert Ness rates the Johnson far above the Garand...