Word: infantryman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stilwell had an infantryman's myopia when it came to the real uses of airpower (he even walked out of Burma after his defeat, though Pilot Scott had flown in to rescue him), and Marshall could be relied on to back Stilwell in any disagreement with Chennault. Moreover, as Author Scott only suggests, Stilwell bitterly disliked Chennault's friend, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The overriding issue of Chinese Communism is all but unmentioned in Scott's book, although the Marshall and Stilwell blindness to the Communists' real purpose lay at bottom of their inability...
...foremost intellectual. An opinionated and brilliant man, the son of wealthy Catholic parents, Senghor started his career as a teacher in the Parisian Lycée Louis-le-Grand, which traditionally gets the cream of Sorbonne graduates for its faculty. He fought with the French as an infantryman in World War II, joined the Resistance, became a literary lion in Paris after publication of his poems, Chantes d'Ombre. His second wife is a Frenchwoman. As one of the architects of the new Mali Federation which keeps its links to Paris, his hope for the future...
...recoiling rifles, the rocket launcher, the carbine, the mortar, and the pistol. He marches to distant ranges where he had been driven before. He learns to use a bayonet, bivouacking for four weeks out of the eight. Two RFA's at Fort Dix, N.J. in 1957 won the Expert Infantryman's Badge, the foot soldier's most coveted award, beating out several combat veterans in the process...
...veterans produced explosions of creative effort," says James F. Mathias, a 79th Division infantryman commissioned on the battlefield in Normandy, who came back to screen Yale's returning G.I.s and now helps screen candidates for the Guggenheim Foundation's annual awards. "The new talents are obvious in the sciences, but they are just as great in painting, music, writing and scholarship." In routine matters, they did still better. Veterans and their wives settled down and became the generation to cut the wartime divorce rate in half, raise the birth rate 26.2% in a decade, demand that schools teach...
...stirring again: the new General Staff college is rising in Hamburg, historically one of the least martial-minded of German cities. And the college's chief is no monocled martinet such as the late great General Hans von Seeckt, who built the Reichswehr after Versailles, but an infantryman who rose to major general's rank fighting on the Eastern Front. Yet there are signs that the postwar German attitude toward the military is changing...