Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about. Unappeased, McCarthy .called Brigadier (General Ralph Zwicker, commander of Camp Kilmer, N.J., where Peress had been stationed, to the stand. Zwicker, trying to protect his superiors, gave some answers that were less than candid. McCarthy, lashing out, made the outrageous suggestion that Zwicker, an officer with a line combat record, was "not fit to wear that uniform." Zwicker had been insulted, although not publicly pilloried; the hearing was closed, and the insults first came to light through Army channels...
...fighter, but gave no performance data. But the F-102 has been her alded as the next step in fast, high-altitude interceptors. Airwise rumor is that it is genuinely supersonic, i.e., flies above the speed of sound in level flight. It is packed with educated electronics. In combat, the airplane will probably do most of its own thinking, the pilot sitting passively while radars and other gadgets locate their prey, aim and fire the guns or other armament. Then he will return the spent airplane to its base...
...description of war, from a private's fatigue to a general's annoyance, is one of Author Plievier's finest talents. Another is his easy way with mass confusion, civilian and military, his ability to control vast combat areas without losing sight of the basic factors, from supply to morale. He shifts from the German side to the Russian as if he had seen the entire battle from a slow, low-flying plane, then describes the movements and feelings of individual soldiers as if he himself had jumped off for both sides. In Moscow, the Russian confusion...
...remaining sons also fought with credit in World War II. The eldest, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, onetime governor general of the Philippines, died of combat exhaustion in Normandy, where he served as assistant commander of the 4th Division. Businessman and Author Kermit Roosevelt, after serving with both the British and U.S. armies in both world wars, died in 1943 on active service in Alaska as a major. Archibald Roosevelt, 59, the only surviving son, was an infantry battalion commander in World War II, now runs a bond business in Manhattan...
...came for Captain Knoke not in air combat, as he had hoped ("If I ram one of the Yanks, I shall be able to take him with me"), but in an automobile crash in Czechoslovakia. Partisan bombs wrecked his staff car, crippled his legs for life. He dragged out the war in convalescence, nursing the tattered logbook that recorded 2,000 flights, 400 combat missions, 52 confirmed kills...