Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foothill creek. It was rich with coarse gold. They built a cabin, went feverishly to work. Three days later a band of Sioux swept down on them. Only two prospectors escaped. They headed for the Oregon Trail with three baking powder cans of gold, spent a fretful winter at Fort Laramie, then started back to claim the creek's treasure. They were never seen again...
...history, and 640 out of 1,497 of the Army's present general officers are West Pointers.* First Captain (now 2nd Lieut.) Robert Woods will take his place in battle with the Long Grey Lines as soon as he has finished a course in the Infantry School at Fort Benning. Whether he will follow in the brilliant footsteps of such First Captains as Robert E. Lee, John J. Pershing and Douglas MacArthur, only time can tell. Whether he does or not, he is clearly a good man to have on our side...
Background for Peace. At Fort Sheridan, Ill., the post library reported that its most popular books were those on the care & feeding of infants...
First Cavalry. The history of the U.S. frontier is written into the record of the ist Cavalry. Its 8th Regiment was organized in 1866; part of its 7th died with Custer at Little Big Horn. For years, stationed at the century-old post of Fort Bliss, most of the ist Cavalry patrolled the Rio Grande. But the time the old noncoms remember most bitterly was the more recent one when they lost their horses...
...mechanized outfit the ist Cavalry Division left Fort Bliss in 1943, bound for the Pacific. Its commander was burly Major General Innis Palmer ("Bull") Swift, a veteran spit-&-polish horse soldier ("It doesn't take a damn bit of practice to live like a hog") who made a crack record in combat...