Word: mihiel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forces helped stem the last great German offensive at Cháteau-Thierry. Three months later-under orders not to dig holes-they took the offensive at Saint-Mihiel, won back a salient the Germans had held since 1914. Fourteen days after that, the U.S. First Army attacked on the Meuse-Argonne line, broke through the enemy trench systems, routed their way through the weary defenders. Pershing advocated driving on to Berlin. But his wish was thwarted by the Armistice...
...smoke, and did not like his womenfolk to smoke; he was a high Mason; he had married the girl he went to Sunday School with; he had been a World War I hero (an artillery captain, he saved his panicky battery from a German trap in the St. Mihiel fighting). He was a farm boy become county judge, with friends "in the sticks" to add to Pendergast's slick Kansas City machine...
Outstanding was September 13, 1918, Saint Mihiel, by 54-year-old Kerr Eby, now painting for the Marines. It was a pencil drawing of weary, bent men on the march under a sky filled with a ponderous black cloud. Artist Eby says that the cloud hung in the sky for three days; the Germans thought it was an omen...
...first use of D for Day, H for Hour was in Field Order No. 8, of the First Army, A.E.F., issued on Sept. 7, 1918, which read: "The First Army will attack at H-Hour on D-Day with the object of forcing the evacuation of the St. Mihiel salient...
...progressed through Bull Moose Republicanism and World War I service in the Meuse-Argonne and St. Mihiel offensives. It lived on in his hearty mule-driver's language and his adoption of T.R.'s "strenuous life," even to a half-hour's vigorous daily exercise until a week before his death. Politically it was manifest in his early mistrust of Roosevelt II (he called for "fewer and better Roosevelts", and in 1936 he was the Republicans' violently anti-New Deal vice-presidential nominee). But in June 1940, Knox and fellow Republican Henry L. Stimson entered Franklin...