Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cadet Franco got his Army commission at 17, served with distinction in the endless Riff campaigns, got to be a major at 23 and the youngest general in a standard European army at 32. His fortunes sagged for a time under the Spanish Republic, then brightened when a Rightist Government came into power in 1935 and his friend, War Minister Jose Maria Gil Robles (now exiled leader of the Catholic CEDA) made him Chief of Staff...
...Pike, whose permanent home address is listed as Concord, North Carolina, has been attached to two naval fight activities in the South since his graduation from Annapolis in 1935. First of the series of administrative assignments was with the Aviation Cadet Regiment at Pensacola, Florida, the navy's oldest flight training-base...
...course, introduced at Chapel Hill, N.C., is a fitting addition to the tough training program of the Pre-Flight Schools. When cadets arrive at the University of North Carolina, they have already gone through a Naval Flight Preparatory School and a War Training Service School, where they got the basic academic courses and put in their first flying time in civilian planes. At Chapel Hill and the other Pre-Flight Schools,* academic courses continue, but the emphasis is on physical fitness. Sports stressed are those which feature bodily contact and competitive spirit; boxing, wrestling, football. Swimming is a must: every...
...attempt to be as much like an infantry company as possible, the unit will be organized with a cadet system having cadet officers and non-commissioned officers. Appearances may deceive, however, as the trainees will be in civilian clothes except during periods of military training. College ROTC men will aid with the military drill
...Army would admit only the obvious - that he somehow got a change of clothing and faked identification papers. When traveling he played deaf-mute or pretended to be asleep to fend off the curious. The rest of Cadet Wissenback's story will have to wait: other U.S. flyers may be wandering in Europe today, using the same methods...