Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instead of next month, as the Army had originally ruled), the Guard will institute the Army's preferred six-month program. For its part, the Army assured the Guard that it would help keep Guard strength at its present level of 400,000 men-27 divisions, nine regimental combat teams and assorted spare parts...
Nominated for promotion to brigadier general, Air Force Reserve: lanky Cinemairman James (The Spirit of St. Louis) Stewart, 48, now a colonel and veteran of 20 combat bomber missions over Germany in World...
...satellites will be subject to enemy attacks and to attempts to make them ineffective by jamming their radio signals. Space combat might begin in this remote and bloodless way, rather as air combat began in World War I with pilots shooting at each other with ineffective side arms...
...ships and men with warm command and cold logic. In May 1944 he was hustled back to Washington as Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air), where he beat loud drums for the cause of naval aviation and produced the Radford Report, a skillful survey of the delivery, combat use, rotation, repair and relocation of aircraft. Brought back to the Pacific in November 1944, when Japanese naval forces were dwindling fast, Radford was appointed commander of Carrier Division 6 with Admiral Marc Mitscher's vast Task Force 58. There he pasted Japanese shore installations from the South China...
...RATE PESETAS will be sold by Spain to U.S. travelers. To spur foreign tourist trade and combat flourishing black market, the Franco government will let Americans deposit dollars in U.S. banks, pick up pesetas in Spain at rate of 46 to $1 v. current pegged rate of 38.95 per $1. Spain is also considering general devaluation of its weak peseta...