Word: ist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given command of the ist Virginia Regiment and the responsibility for protecting every scattered settler on its borders. He learned hard lessons: the difficulties of recruiting Americans for military service, the harsh necessity of discipline (once he hanged two deserters on a 40-ft. gallows to impress his less than ardent troops), the jealousy and backbiting inherent in public service...
...tail of a MIG. After a quick burst from the Sabre's .50-cal. machine guns, the Red plane exploded. A few minutes later, Garrison downed another MIG. Captain Lonnie Moore, 32, drew a bead on a third MIG and brought it down; ist Lieut. Harry Jones Jr., 23, got another. Then at 1,500 ft., Wingman William F. Schrimsher, 24, a 2nd lieutenant from Alabama, got on the tail of a fifth MIG. The Red pilot shoved the throttle wide open, went into a steep left bank trying to get away. Instead, the MIG snapped on its back...
...month (May 1951), more than $1,200 was raised in the ist Cavalry Division for "Operation Mascot," a project for the placement in Korean orphanages of Korean children who had served as mascots for the division...
...read with interest and pride your March 23 article on the British ist Commonwealth Division. There should be more said about this tough division made up of volunteers from all over the British Commonwealth. The fact that they are volunteers sets them aside from many units in Korea, and they take a fierce pride in this fact...
...soldiers he talked to. (Last year he sent letters to the relatives of 6,000 after he returned to the U.S.) On Christmas Eve, he said midnight Mass at I Corps chapel, the next day flew up to the front, where he spoke to 2,500 marines in the ist Division's amphitheater, his stole, cassock and surplice fitting snugly over...