Word: kincaide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major General William W. Eagles, commander of ground forces, was replaced by breezy Major General Josef R. Sheetz, a convivial hustler who had done an able military government job in Korea. Air Force troops on Okinawa are commanded by grey, quiet-spoken Major General Alvin C. ("Ack-Ack") Kincaid, whose slightly absent-minded philosopher's air belies his hardheaded attention to discipline and morale. Since the change of command, Okinawa's scandalous decline has been arrested. But Sheetz and Kincaid still have a tough situation on their hands...
Sheetz and Kincaid are faced with other morale hazards. Recreational facilities consisted of a few broken-down movie shacks and football fields. Okinawa had become a dumping ground for Army misfits and rejects from more comfortable posts. In the six months ending last September, U.S. soldiers committed an appalling number of crimes-29 murders, 18 rape cases, 16 robberies, 33 assaults...
General Sheetz believes that the U.S. has far more than strategic interests on Okinawa: it carries, he says, "the moral responsibility of a Christian people to others." Sheetz, Kincaid and their staff are facing up to that responsibility; they are determined not to let Okinawa down...
...university macebearer, came General Ike himself, wearing the hood of an honorary LL.D. (trimmed in purple, for Law, and lined in blue & white, for Columbia). A ripple of applause followed Eisenhower down the aisle; he grinned at old friends like General Omar Bradley and Admiral Thomas C. Kincaid, and saluted Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch...
Bachelors of Arts (Out of Course), as of the Class of 1946: Melvin Breath Casey, Casimir de Rham Jr., Paul Martin Goldhill, William John Dean Kennedy, Marshall McKibben Kincaid, Cloyd Laporte Jr., Robert Leventall, John Stanley McCormick Jr., Joseph Menuel Paniello, John Ivan Simon, John Eliot Thayer...