Word: glidermen
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...Bastogne, soon after the German offensive began, hurried parts of two U.S. armored divisions-the 9th and 10th of Lieut. General George S. Patton's Third Army. In speeding trucks came almost the full strength of the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagle" paratroops and glidermen whose toughness and contempt fot danger are legendary. Back upon Bastogne fell straggling groups from U.S. outfits that had been chewed...
Allied paratroopers and glidermen had given the greatest demonstration of the power of airborne attack in the invasion of France; never before had such masses been dropped into heavily defended enemy territory to fight with such effect. Last week the Allies moved a step further in the development of a tactical weapon that had been long neglected...
...Signed a bill giving flying pay to Army & Navy glidermen (roughly, a 50% increase...
...Tennessee maneuvers last week a full U.S. airborne division was used in a tactical operation with larger units. Paratroops and glider-borne infantry carried out the attack. Riding with the glidermen was TIME Correspondent John H. Walker, who wrote this account...
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