Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...materials on a large scale to a European battlefront." The other was honest General George Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army and no showy talker. At West Point's graduation exercises he departed from pleasantries and the usual sermon on the honor of the Cadet Corps to hammer a few global-war tacks. Said he: "Today we find American soldiers throughout the Pacific, in Burma, China and India. They have wintered in Greenland and Iceland...
...became a naturalized Briton in 1868, served 51 years in the Royal Navy and was First Sea Lord when World War I began. The name of Battenberg was too much for warring Britons: late in 1914, just a year after 14-year-old Lord Louis had become a naval cadet, Prince Louis resigned from the Admiralty. In 1917, he translated his name into English and became Mountbatten...
Young Louis was a cadet on two of Admiral Beatty's flagships (Lion, Queen Elizabeth), If his royal blood did him no harm, it did not noticeably speed his promotion: a midshipman by 1916, he was a lowly sublieutenant when the war ended...
...glider program was emerging in the U.S. Just how big it was no one in the War Department would say. But a call had gone out for glider pilots; the first training schools were ready, others were on the way. Civil pilots, 18 to 35, ineligible for regular aviation-cadet training, were sought as glider students. Several large aircraft factories, a few smaller ones, had fat contracts to build big gliders for troop transports, small ones for training...
...reclassified 3-A as his mother's sole support. Playing ball for a reported $30,000 a year, he had said he wanted to play one more year, to end his mother's financial worries. Last week he passed his exams as a Naval Aviation cadet. The selection board said that in the normal course of things he would probably not be inducted till the ball season ends...