Word: guardsman
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...worker who had been discharged from the Wehrmacht, sprang from the crowd and beat the prostrate man with a club. Matthias Gierens, a small, hard-faced crane operator in whose family there had been insanity, crushed the flyer's skull with a heavy hammer. Matthias Krein, a home guardsman, watched and did nothing to stop the murder...
...went no farther than high school before setting to work. He was a timekeeper for the Santa Fe Railroad in Kansas City, wrapped papers for the Star, clerked in a bank. Then he went back to the farm until World War I swept him in. A longtime National Guardsman, he went to France a captain, won commendation for his coolness under fire (he once disciplined a panicked company in combat) and returned a major. From then on, Harry kept up his citizen-soldier interest in the Army, still holds a colonel's commission in the Army Reserve...
Tragi-comic fantasy by the au thor of Liliom and The Guardsman. A modern Hungarian Munchausen makes himself the hero of every wild, romantic tale he has ever heard, but his own life is more bizarre than his fancies...
...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...