Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actual mustering out will take place at Separation Centers in the U.S. Personnel officers to handle the "separating" are being trained at Fort Dix, N.J., where about 100 men a day are already being mustered out, in test runs. Eventually, Fort Dix expects to be able to handle 2,000 a day. Four other centers have been set up. By the time demobilization becomes a stampede, the Army hopes to have 18 centers...
Honor for the Dead. When the Canadians came back into Dieppe last fort night, there were no casualties, no shooting. The Germans had fled; it was almost an anticlimax. The victors who marched with tranquil pride through Dieppe's streets were the men of the 2nd Division - the same outfit that sent 5,000 men across in the 1942 raid, brought back less than...
Baseball's Paul Bunyan is Sergeant Charley Cronin. He keeps on mowing 'em down. Last week he had won 69 straight games in three years of Army pitching (including a recent victory over Sacramento of the Pacific Coast League). The Fort Lewis (Wash.) pitcher is a 30-year-old ex-minor leaguer, who won 24, lost 19 with Springfield of the Three-I League before retiring with a sore arm. The St. Louis Browns, the Cardinals and Detroit had liked his fast ball but labeled him too frail (150 lbs.) to stand the gaff. On Army beans...
Elizabeth Strayhorn was assistant to the commandant at the Fort Oglethorpe WAC training center until the commandant got another job and she took over...
Among the 853 Vandalia marksmen were many in uniform. Captain Joe Hiestand of Fort Myers, Fla., became the first four-time winner of the North American Clay Targets* by breaking 200 clay birds in a row. J. K. Stark, a 41-year-old sales manager from San Antonio, dropped into Vandalia for a day, decided to enter the National Doubles Clay Target Championship,** won with...