Word: insignia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike the Americans he had condemned, stocky, double-chinned General Anton Dostler, 54, got a hearing. Before a U.S. military commission convened in Rome's Palace of Justice, the General said Ja, he had ordered the O.S.S. men shot. They wore no insignia, had turned their field jackets inside out. A Führerbefehl (order from Hitler) had decreed death for captured commandos and saboteurs. When junior officers protested, he countermanded his order, asked higher-ups what to do. Field Marshal General Albert Kesselring's headquarters said shoot the captives; after that, he had no alternative...
...Tokyo, General Douglas MacArthur told correspondents that they would be on their own after Oct. 27. They were told that they could wear Army uniforms without insignia, and that they would be given some billeting and food...
...song mainly because the lead sheet carried a reproduction of the seal of Harvard University," she wrote recently. "Therefore, they wrote a number of indignant letters to the publishers requesting that all existing copies of the song be called in and no new ones released until the insignia had been removed...
...formality of relationship between ranks; inferior administrative organization as compared to ours; singing while drilling; greater emphasis on automatic fire in the infantry; wearing of medals instead of ribbons; absence of signs indicating the particular units stationed in the vicinity, which are very conspicuous with us; absence of unit insignia on uniforms; friendliness towards us personally; the enthusiastic greetings of Czechs in the Russian zone when they recognized our uniforms. Take these for what they are worth...
General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, 62, now at, a spit-&-polish job (Chief of the Army Ground Forces), was remembered in a more casually dressed post (U.S. commander in the CBI Theater). One G.I., not recognizing the General as he wandered about the front without his star-spangled insignia, commented: "Just look at that poor old man-some draft boards will do anything...