Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Army Career: Commissioned a 2nd lieutenant of infantry after graduation, and sent to 30th Infantry in Philippines. Later in the Philippines, he became so highly regarded for his staff work that he never thereafter had a combat field command of his own. A captain when the U.S. entered World War I, he served as chief of operations of the First Army, then chief of staff of the VIII Army Corps in France. His best-known feat in World War I: planning the covert movement of 500,000 U.S. troops and 2,700 guns from St. Mihiel to the Meuse-Argonne...
Weapon Genetics. The new war birds are direct descendants of the three great inventions of World War II. Only one of the three-radar-came to full use in combat. The German V-2 rocket, a scientific triumph but a military failure, was developed too little; the atom bomb came too late. Both were held over as unfinished business for the next meeting of arms...
Cottages, with Heat. At Camp Lejeune, N.C., newcomers stopped trying to rent "those empty houses over there," after it was pointed out to them that the buildings are used for training Marine Corps recruits in the tactics of house-to-house combat...
...Passed unanimously and sent to the House, ex-Marine Paul H. Douglas' bill to increase the Marine Corps from 200,000 to 400,000 men (four combat divisions with supporting air wings). Under the new bill, the Marine Corps commandant would sit on the Joint Chiefs of Staff as a consultant, but would have no vote...
When Lieut. General James Alward Van Fleet arrived in Korea last month to take charge of the Eighth Army, he remarked professionally: "This looks like a good place to fight." Korea is not much like the plains of northern France, where he won his first fame as a combat commander; it is more like mountainous Greece, where as U.S. "adviser" to the Greek army he licked the Red guerrillas. But it is like both in that it is a hard-fought battlefield; and that, as the Army discovered rather late in Van Fleet's career, is the kind...