Word: mihiel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War I, Colonel Marshall, a GHQ operations officer attached to the First Army, planned and carried out a classic maneuver: at night, for two weeks, he transferred 500,000 troops and 2,700 guns from St. Mihiel to the Argonne front, caught the Germans flat-footed at the first shot of the Argonne offensive. Said tight-lipped General John J. Pershing, who later took George Marshall as his aide-de-camp: "He's a man who understands military...
...replaces him as Defense Minister is a lesser Soviet war hero, usually ranked fifth in the Red army hierarchy after Marshals Zhukov, Konev, Vasileysky and Sokolovsky. Malinovsky is stubby, barrel-chested and almost two years younger than Zhukov. He fought with a Czarist brigade beside U.S. troops at Saint-Mihiel on World War I's Western front, hurried back after the Revolution to help form soldiers' Soviets in Siberia...
Chidlaw's successor: General Earle Everard Partridge, also 54, commander of the Far East Air Forces. An enlisted infantry soldier in World War I (St. Mihiel, the Argonne, Verdun), "Pat" Partridge re-enlisted after the Armistice, won an appointment from the ranks to West Point, joined the embryonic Army Air Service after graduation in 1924. A test pilot and flight instructor in the years that followed, Partridge never lost his love for flying as he rose to top command, e.g., Eighth Air Force in Europe, Fifth Air Force in Korea...
...Germans . . . My advice to Charlie is to take heart. I predict that by the end of the month we'll be in complete control of Paris, Marseille will capitulate. Bulgaria will petition for an armistice, and Rumania will surrender and switch to the Allied side. As Verdun. Saint-Mihiel and Dieppe fall, the Russians will take over the entire Ploesti oilfields...
...back a month later as a company commander in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensive. He was wounded again. He came home a captain, wearing the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Croix de guerre and two silver stars-and found to his horror that he could not stay in the service as a regular without a thorough knowledge of naval artillery...