Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half a million men. Guardsmen comprised 37% of all U.S. troops killed in France, 41% of all wounded. In 1940 the Guard gave the nation 19 infantry divisions of 300,000 men; 20,920 of these were officers, 85% of whom are still in active service. One National Guardsman-Raymond S. McLain-now commands a corps. Guardsmen, 3.75% of the Army's strength, have won eight of 61 Congressional medals awarded the Army in this...
From an artillery outpost on Leyte, Brigadier General Kenneth F. Cramer, deputy commander of the embattled 24th Division, watched the fight. Nearby officers noted that a Jap sniper fired every time the 50-year-old National Guardsman took off his helmet to mop his brow. Warned General Cramer promised to keep his hat on his glistening bald pate hidden...
Looking like Al Jolson Digged out to understudy Alfred Lunt in The Guardsman, Commander John S. Young, onetime NBC commentator and later assistant naval attache at Moscow, modeled the regulation dress for officers assigned to the Soviet Union. To the Navy bridge coat has been added a collar of caracul. The headpiece, also of caracul, is patterned after the Cossack...
Died. Bronson Winthrop, 80, Manhattan Old Guardsman, onetime partner of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in the famed Manhattan law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts; in Syosset, Long Island...
Last week he turned up at the fighting fronts in a light grey flannel bush coat, khaki drill breeches, polo boots, Sam Browne belt, and an ancient stern-visored guardsman's cap, which he has clung to for years: it has been rebuilt three times. Neither at Dunkirk nor anywhere since then has he bothered to wear a steel helmet...