Word: courtneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heartening days after the breakthrough at Saint-LÔat the breaking of the Siegfried Line might not be too hard a task. But experienced generals like leathery Courtney Hodges knew differently. By now even the lowliest of his slugging G.I.s, up against the enemy among his earthworks, his forests, his staggered rows of pillbox forts, knew that the job was probably one of the toughest since Dday...
...that the supply situation had been redressed. Probably it did not yet have the bountiful perfection to which U.S. soldiers have be come accustomed. But one thing was cer tain: General Hodges would not be moving as he was unless he could move with certainty. Above all other things Courtney Hodges was a believer in making sure before he went ahead...
...Cautious Way. The First put in five days & nights of steady hammering before it got its first break. It took bitter punishment - the enemy was also good at infighting, and Courtney Hodges had to be cautious. But Hodges' men delivered hard, damaging blows, inching forward, never easing the pressure, always looking for an opening to hit where it would hurt most...
...stern school on the Hudson the pattern was almost broken. In his first year Cadet Hodges was "found": he flunked in geometry, and had to leave the Academy. But Courtney Hodges was going to be a soldier, and an officer, if he could contrive it. A year later, he laid down his job in a grocery store in Perry and enlisted as a private soldier. It was up the ladder from there on-corporal and then sergeant in the 17th Infantry, and then a chance for a commission. Sergeant Hodges had turned into a hard, determined student...
...served in the Rhineland occupation (in the same area that his First Army's maps now cover). He returned to a ten-year tour of troop duty, of instruction in the Army's schools, of teaching from the textbooks. For 14 years Major Courtney Hodges had no promotions. Like many another professional soldier, he learned again that in peace the soldiers' rewards are small and few. But it was his life. He read, studied, worked with characteristic precision at field and garrison duties...