Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engaged. James Joseph Patterson, 21, West Point cadet, only son of New York Daily News Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson; and Dorothy Marie Clarke, 21, of Ossining, N.Y., his onetime grade-school flame; in Ossining...
...increased importance is the news that more of him are needed. The War Department has announced that 36,000 men who had volunteered for the Air Forces were being turned back to the Ground and Service Forces. (Lighter-than-expected air casualties are also responsible for suspension of aviation cadet procurement.) Some 9,000 2nd lieutenants from coast artillery outfits were at Fort Benning, being turned into infantry officers...
...isolated in a barracks corner. Other soldiers stared at him glumly. He feared the drunks most; they always wanted to fight. Ben tried first for air cadet, then for mechanic. He was sent to clerical school in Colorado, then shipped to Barksdale Field, La., one of 40 new clerks. As usual he was the last to be assigned, spent a miserable 15 days on the dirtiest of K.P. jobs...
...Soldier's Son. The force that Vice Admiral Nelles will direct from London is vastly different from the R.C.N. as it was when Cadet Nelles signed up in 1908, the second of seven original officer candidates. Percy Nelles, son of Brigadier Charles Nelles, who served in the Northwest Rebellion, South African War and led the Royal Canadian Dragoons in World War I, was truly one of the first aboard...
This picture of a class in the Suvorov Military Academy at Kalinin illustrates dominant features of Soviet education since Marshal Stalin abolished coeduca tion (TIME, Aug. 1 6). It is one of nine cadet schools named for the 18th century Russian Field Marshal Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov. Eligible for the school's seven-year course are 10-to-13-year-old sons of Red soldiers, and any boy orphaned by the Germans. Their days are scheduled from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., with three leisure hours. During the war there are no holidays. Studies include tactics, firearms, military history...