Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forces that made the first, unopposed gains on Luzon last week were no mere regiments or elements of regiments: they were the XIV Corps of Lieut. General Walter Krueger's Sixth Army. They were armed with weapons which had been designers' dreams three years ago. They were tough and junglewise. They were backed by fleets and air forces which dwarfed those of the enemy. They knew that in reserve were other corps to keep the drive rolling in high. General MacArthur was on his way to Manila. To secure the island of Luzon, he had four...
Suddenly the door opened and Lieut. General Ronald MacKenzie Scobie, tall and trimly military, entered briskly and sat down at the head of a long, polished table. Without a word or glance at the Greeks, the British Military Commander began rapidly affixing his signature to documents his chief of staff handed him. When he had finished, he rose abruptly and left the room...
...Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. ended whispered speculation among his subordinates by explaining the mystery of the doughnut-shaped cushion he carried through the Battle of the Bulge. While the General stood, it circled his arm; when he sat, it was under him. The burning question was: had hard-riding old Georgie Patton finally gone soft? The explanation: on the night Rundstedt attacked, the General took a fall in his blacked-out headquarters, bruised his coccyx...
World War II's fighting men have told frankly how it feels to be afraid (TIME, Dec. 25). Last week, in a report to the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Lieut. Ralph E. Kirsch described not only how it feels but how fear in battle translates itself into bodily reactions...
...Lieut. Kirsch, a 29-year-old Navy flight surgeon, pursued his researches in the course of 21 combat flights over Jap-held islands in the Pacific. All were unusually dangerous missions on which, besides dropping bombs, the planes were required to hold a straight, level course to permit mapping and picture-taking...