Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amendment of the laws limiting the service of drafted men, reservists and National Guardsmen to one year...
...this belief were true, as it appeared to be, the second fall of France was the worst defeat that the democracies had suffered since the summer of 1940. The President's appeal to the French people over the heads of their Government, his sending Coast Guardsmen aboard French ships-15 of them including the great Normandie-in American harbors, did not redress the situation...
...Ohio's National Guardsmen are taught to read maps...
...phony papers, parachutists, soldiers in mufti, even pretty girls to spy, to confuse the defenders, to carry out specific missions. ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) glamor girls gathered in hotel lounges and went to work on officers-and reported back to headquarters indiscretions both by "Nazis" and by defenders. Home Guardsmen were so good at catching Fifth Columnists that invaders avoided Home Guard road blocks like poison, sometimes detouring for miles in order to escape detection. One officer with a phony pass, who was finally caught by the Home Guard, had previously got through two regular Army sentries' examinations...
What these reports added up to: the U.S. is getting a huge school army which still needs more schooling, more equipment. Unless the tours of one-year Guardsmen and draftees are extended (as was rumored in Washington last week), a big segment of the Army must continue to be a school force...