Word: combatant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...controls. "He always felt after his brother's death that people shouldn't do things they aren't trained for." a close relative recalls. "I've heard him say the Germans and Russians weeded out the poorly trained by letting them get killed in combat. He feels the weeding out should be done in rigorous training." Adds one of Radford's officers, with a different perspective: ''He impressed pilots that there was a helluva lot more to flying than flying. There was thinking, for example...
...only a "police action" and it could be handled by the regular services. As it was, though, eighty-four percent of the Air Guard and thirtyseven percent of the Army Guard were mobilized. Two of the eight mobilized divisions saw action in Korea, and well over fifty percent of combat missions were flown by reservists, a good percentage of whom were Air Guard pilots. Said one Continental Army official in the Army Times, "In some phases of the tests, the Guard showed up better than the regular army. The Guard has nothing to be ashamed...
...former combat historian in Europe in World War II, I feel that you should be more specific about Senator Knowland's wartime assignment [Jan. 14] than "public information and military government officer." During the Normandy days he was good enough to share his limited office space with several of us from First Army; he was combat historian with the Advanced Section, Communications Zone...
...Secret Affair (Warner) is a comedy of bad manners. They are largely exercised by a newsmagazine tycoon (Susan Hayward), aided by her editor (Paul Stewart), upon a famed combat general (Kirk Douglas). The general believes that there are only two kinds of women: mothers and the others. The female tycoon believes that there are only two kinds of men, "and I can handle both." Each, by profession, is determined to have his own way. When she decides to do a cover story on him, exposing him as a blabbermouth and general incompetent, the stage appears...
...duty in September 1940. Squarejawed, blue-eyed, thoroughly able, he rose with phenomenal speed in wartime to command the Eighth Air Force's 96th Bomb Group at a ripe 36, led the first shuttle-bomb raid (from England to Russia and back), the famed Schweinfurt raids, flew 43 combat missions, became LeMay's director of operations in 1953, is now commander of SAC's Fifteenth Air Force...