Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, despite the Army's protestations that all is reasonably well in the prisoner-of-war camps, authorities at Fort Leavenworth hanged two more Nazis for the same kind of crime-murder of a fellow prisoner...
...Army buried eight prisoners at Fort Douglas last week, and treated 20 more for wounds, Bushnell General Hospital psychiatrists examined Private Bertucci. Ninth Service Command officers admitted that Bertucci's record already showed two courts-martial, one in England. His own calm explanation seemed a little too simple: he had hated Germans, so he had killed Germans...
...Fort Banning last week a corporal picked up a 57-mm. cannon (which ordinarily weighs 3,000 lbs.), and aimed it as casually as a shotgun. He fired a 2¼-lb. projectile (more than 2 in. in diameter) which demolished a cordwood target 800 yards away. The weight of this cannon: 45 Ibs. There was not enough recoil "to move the skin on my shoulder...
...Newman had joined the army at 18, served two years at Fort Sill. Okla.; he went to Manila in 1940. Captured on Bataan, he had shrunk from 145 pounds to 92 by the time Cabanatuan was liberated in January. Army doctors fought to save what the Japanese had left of Jim Newman-one of the saddest cases they had seen of starvation, beri beri, tuberculosis. Other survivors of the prison camps gained weight and strength; Jim Newman did not. A fortnight ago the doctors gave up. flew him home to Fort Worth. He would die, they said...
Last week the Hearstmen picked themselves up off the floor. Their "hero" had exploded right in their faces. At Fort Devens, Mass., Private McGee had just been sentenced to six months for being AWOL and drunk, and for making false statements under oath. The false statements: that he had been in combat, had won the Purple Heart and Silver Star. The conviction, the court-martial revealed, was the thirteenth of McGee's Army career...