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...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...
...impress. In 1929 (when the Army was at one of its lowest points in men and money) George Marshall was a lieutenant colonel, the assistant commandant of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. Two majors impressed him there: plain, lanky Omar Bradley and ramrod-straight, studious Courtney Hodges. The three...
...Marshall Way. In early 1941, George Marshall picked Courtney Hodges as Chief of Infantry. The man who could not make West Point's grade became a major general. Hodges had proved to Marshall that his Army-trained mind was not stereotyped, that he was quick to grasp ideas, thorough in getting them into execution. As Infantry Chief, Hodges was concerned with training and new weapons. His knowledge of guns began to pay dividends. Hodges' insistence that an infantryman should have a weapon to stop a tank was an early influence in fostering the mortar-type bazooka. Other Hodges...
...First's smart exploitation of its part of the battle was proof enough that Courtney Hodges was the versatile, complete tactician: he could stand and slug, or dash and slash...