Word: fuller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freshman Pete Fuller, star of last year's Milton academy squad, will fill the 175-pound slot, and Sophomore Dick Albion, another Milton product, will fight in the 165-pound class. Although practice has been going on for only a week. Coach Shaffra is confident that hoth of these grapplers will give a good account of themselves in tomorrow's encounter...
...like animals, in trenches 500 miles long. When the Americans joined the war, all the Allies wanted was more infantry-more men to hurl against the enemy. Foch wanted to spread these men along the whole front; Pershing fought to build an American Army, and succeeded. "This," says General Fuller, "was not only a victory for Pershing, but also for the Allied cause, for had the readjustment proposed by Foch been agreed upon ... in all probability the war would have continued into 1919." The Meuse-Argonne offensive, which broke the German back, took 47 days and no less than...
Generals in General. Through all these battles, General Fuller traces certain U.S. weaknesses...
...generals are inclined to be too considerate of both subordinates and the enemy. Lee, he believes, would have been more successful if less gentle with his generals. Sherman, on the other hand, an advocate of terror, Fuller admires-though he says that the march through Georgia and the Carolinas was of little military use. Except for Grant, U.S. military leaders have not had enough appreciation of the importance of speed, and lost many a golden opportunity by dawdling. Most horrible example: the pious Jackson, who stopped for devotions on the Sabbath...
...After the Decision . . . General Fuller's comments on U.S. battles, on their causes, and on the peaces which have intervened, provoke constant comparisons with the U.S. part in World War II. The net effect is fairly encouraging: the book leaves the impression that Americans fight hard, if not always with utmost efficiency. But after the discussion of the Meuse-Argonne, there is a pithy little passage which ought to make readers want to see a certain difference in the finally decisive battles of 1942-43: "I do not intend here," Fuller writes, "as I have done in former chapters...