Word: colonel
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Dave Shoup's Medal of Honor citation describes a marines' marine: "For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his own life, above and beyond the call of duty . . . although suffering from a serious, painful leg wound . . . Colonel Shoup fearlessly exposed himself to terrific, relentless artillery, machine-gun and rifle fire ... He assumed command of all landed troops and, working without rest under constant, withering enemy fire during the next two days conducted smashing attacks against unbelievably strong and fanatically defended Japanese positions . . . Colonel Shoup was largely responsible for the final, decisive defeat of the enemy . . ." Shoup...
...accept what the other three had agreed on in their previous meetings, or, if I disagreed with their plans, I would be saddled with the odium of disturber of the peace." So Eisenhower will see Adenauer first in Bonn next week. In anticipation, the President's personal pilot, Colonel William A. Draper, test-landed Ike's specially fitted Boeing 707 at Wahn Airport and found the approaches and runway (2,450 yds.) long enough...
...after McCuistion's disappearance before NATO headquarters got interested. When Brigadier General Paul Hollister, NATO chief of staff in Izmir, protested to Turkish authorities, Tough Cop Emrealp at first denied knowledge of McCuistion's arrest. Finally the Turks agreed to show McCuistion and King to a U.S. colonel-who reported that both men were "in bad shape." It took ten more days for NATO to learn of the charges against the four sergeants, and by this time NATO officers also discovered that someone had stolen McCuistion's finance records from a safe in NATO headquarters...
Next night the C46 returned, flown by Colonel José Antonio Soto, Batista's personal pilot, and carrying nine anti-Castro rebels. From near by, Castro himself happily joined the cries of "Down with Fidel!"-it was such a well-baited trap. As soon as the rifles, ammunition, hand grenades and submachine guns were unloaded, Morgan's men clapped the dumfounded invaders under arrest. In a flurry of gunfire from the plane, two of the invaders and two of Morgan's men were killed...
Harsh Discipline. The new rules should make it much easier to fill vacancies in the ranks. But each guardsman must still reckon with his tough C.O.: tall, ramrod-rigid Colonel Robert Nunlist, 48, onetime member of Switzerland's General Staff, who was appointed commander in 1957. Nunlist felt that discipline had deteriorated during the long illness of the previous commander, set out to whip the troop into shape. His soldiers are kept taut with tongue-lashings, stern punishments for minor infractions. Nunlist's strictness nearly cost him his life last April, when a discharged guardsman shot...