Word: combats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army history, the climax of "Exercise Snowdrop," latest in the Army's continuing research into the best way of fighting an Arctic war (others: Task Forces Frigid, Frost, Williwaw in Alaska, Wisconsin and the Aleutians). The jump was made by 500 men of the 505th Airborne Battalion Combat Team, a unit of the Army's famed 82nd Airborne Division...
...airmen contended that those trained under U.M.T. would be practically worthless as combatants in a technological war. To this, many a Ground Force and Navy officer would say amen. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, although he has never said so publicly, has been quoted as saying that the six-month basic training period contemplated under U.M.T. would be valuable chiefly as a character and health builder; that as training for a modern war it would be largely valueless. The airmen contended that the money, time and effort could much better be spent on combat aircraft and in the training...
From Buried Pots? For Socialists it was almost a crisis of conscience. Commented the independent Combat: "France takes the initiative in seeking recovery on the principle of a system that everyone thought was finished...
Liberal Fanatic. Into this assemblage of heroes came Major Gregory Harris, a Harvard man, with a year's experience in the State Department, no combat flying, precise features, and a small mustache. He had asked to be transferred from the Air Transport Command because he believed in the war, and in fighting it "violently." He also believed that we could not rationally fight Fascism abroad and not fight against the first steps toward it at home-race prejudice, for example...
Final exams and 5000 undergraduates met on the field of combat last week and several men were hurt in the shuffle...