Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...draftees, reservists and National Guardsmen in the U.S. Army (total strength: 1,572,000) last week had a surprise: in spite of the law extending their service for, 18 months bigwigs in the War Department had no intention of keeping most of them that long...
...vote. The 20 other American republics watched; the President watched from his sea conference with Winston Churchill; Adolf Hitler's representatives and Emperor Hirohito's observers waited. If the bill failed to pass, most of the half-trained U.S. Army would slowly dissolve as draftees and guardsmen went home. The nation would have to start again building and training another army...
When the House of Representatives by a one-vote margin told draftees and guardsmen that they would have to serve 18 months longer than they expected, dissatisfaction in the ranks was bound to reach its worst. In that crisis Henry Stimson proved he lacked neither energy nor courage...
Sirs: I am just one of Uncle's selectees. I have very recently read of proposals by high Government officials to retain selectees and National Guardsmen longer than their one year...
Sirs: Probably the most discussed subject of the day at Army camps is: "Will the National Guard be kept in service longer than a year?" Newspapers and magazines all over the country quote guardsmen as saying that they will gladly stay on. Where this statement comes from I cannot imagine unless it was from "Fireplace Soldiers" sitting in the comforts of their homes, or officers earning a decent living for the first time in their lives. . . . Believe me, the enlisted men of the National Guard do not want to stay more than a year unless, during that time...