Word: mihiel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enlisted as a private in the ist Illinois Cavalry in 1917, was transferred to the 12 2nd Field Artillery, 33rd Division, rose through the ranks to a captaincy by war's end. In France, he got into the hottest part of the fighting in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. The Tribune itself praised his war record when he came home in 1919, declared he had "won the love" of his regiment. The Chicago News's famed front line correspondent, Robert J. Casey, who was a fellow officer with Field in the 122nd, describes...
...Navy has a tradition that a captain goes down with his ship. The Army takes it for granted that an officer will not desert his men. In the field, a general's authority is supreme. Men who know MacArthur say that in Luzon, as at St. Mihiel,* he will fight his campaign precisely as he pleases. Even if he were ordered back, he might well, say Army men, "fail to see" the order...
...their leadership in the field and . . . combat command appropriate to the rank," jovial, mustachioed Edward P. King Jr., genial George M. Parker Jr., were raised from brigadier to major generals. For "leadership and gallantry" Colonel Harold H. ("Pursuit") George, St. Mihiel and Argonne veteran, trim James R. N. Weaver, Mississippi-born William E. Brougher, were made brigadiers...
...guns to work with. Battery D was the first unit rushed to Washington during the Civil War to look after the capital's defenses, saw action at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg. In World War I, the battery spread its death-shade at the Marne, Cantigny, the Argonne, Saint-Mihiel, was among the last units to return from France. Many of its numerous battle streamers were won in World...
Died. Major General Adna Romanza Chaffee, 56, who fought for, won, and organized the U.S. Army's first Armored Force (TIME, Aug. 18); of cancer; in Boston. Son of the late Lieut. General Adna R. Chaffee, onetime Chief of Staff, he served in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives in World War I, postulated more than a decade ago the principles of armored forces which the Germans adopted...