Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer ready: a "small, but adequate, ultramodern, highly mobile" establishment built around air power. He proposed a force of 5,000 combat planes standing always ready on airfields, manned and maintained by 400,000 men, backed by a reserve of 3,000 planes partly manned by National Guardsmen. The Army, he said, with a sidewise slap at Army control of the air forces, had not yet seen fit to submit the proposal...
...their respective sectors. (The French had to wait, as guests of the British, until their slice of Berlin was precisely determined.) Local Russian commanding officers paid courtesy calls on their Allied opposites. Britain's Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, in a ceremony attended by 100 stately Grenadier Guardsmen went to the Brandenburger Tor, there awarded Marshal Zhukov the "Honory Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath...
Navy Department statistics were not quite so surprising. Some 22,000 have been confined. Executions of Navy men. Marines, Coast Guardsmen: none...
...thirteenth, Coach Stahl and the Coast Guardsmen decided to end the struggle after the next inning. Leading off in the last of the fourteenth, shortstop Closky reached first when his grounder was thrown wide of first base. Bill Ayres, who had taken over Jim Fava's first base post in the twelfth, also rolled to the infield but reached first on a fielder's choice. As backstop Mel Lackey went down on strikes for the second out, Ayres pilfered second, placing himself in scoring position...
North toward Lingayen Gulf lay the others, widening their holdings, cheering and envying the lucky outfits that had got to Manila. They were the 6th Division, the 25th ("Tropic Lightnings"), the 32nd (National Guardsmen from Michigan and Wisconsin), the 40th (National Guardsmen from California, Nevada, Utah and New York), and the 43rd (National Guardsmen from New England...