Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concepts-the wielding of massive armies and the conscription needed to provide the uniformed mass. Two non-Prussians, calm, scholarly General Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, a Hanoverian, and impetuous, dashing August Wilhelm Anton von Gneisenau, coalesced these concepts. Scharnhorst founded the War Academy, from which Staff officers were chosen, and Gneisenau, as chief of staff of the Prussian army, put the new ideas to work. In Bismarck's time, non-Prussian Helmuth Karl von Moltke made the study of past wars a prime function of the Corps...
...concept of air power. A mind that can be as cold and rigorous as a steel trap had found something to bite on. In 1936, Wedemeyer (now a captain after 15 years as lieutenant) graduated from the General Staff School at Leavenworth with such high honors that he was chosen to attend the German General Staff School, Berlin's famed Kriegsakademie...
When the Southeast Asia Command was set up (1943), Lord Louis Mountbatten chose Wedemeyer as his U.S. aide. At first the Southeast Asia Command looked like a dead end to Wedemeyer. Then one morning last October, he was handed a sealed envelope. He had been chosen U.S. Commander in Chief of the China Theater...
...fighting man but the division patch marks a man who has been assigned to fighting as his basic job. On the following pages are a few of the many division patches which have become symbols of American courage on battlefields around the world. The outfits mentioned here were chosen simply as a typical cross section of the U.S. divisions in this war which have gone overseas, hating war, but doing their...
...Esek Hopkins' expedition to New Providence in the Bahamas, in March 1776. Before this war the Corps was not arranged in divisions. Nevertheless, the history of the Corps in World War II will largely be the story of its divisions, beginning with the ist. This was the outfit chosen to make the first big U.S. attack in World War II-the gambling, amphibious assault on Guadalcanal in August 1942. Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, later Marine Commandant...