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...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...
Died. Colonel John W. (William) Thomason Jr., 51, dashing Leatherneck litterateur; after a brief illness; in San Diego, Calif. A drawling, deadpan Texan, onetime reporter, as a 2nd Lieut. he snatched from Soissons, St. Mihiel, the Meuse-Argonne and Belleau Wood three decorations-as well as the hard-boiled anecdotes and swirling, on-the-spot sketches which first appeared as a book in his best-selling Fix Bayonets (1926). A decade ago he summed up his attitude toward Japan's early conquest in China with the prediction that he would die as a Marine Corps Brigadier General-leading...
...Captain Holland Smith set off for France. He spent two years there. He was adjutant of the famed 4th Marine Brigade. Then he was Assistant Operations Officer for the U.S. I Corps, where he served with Army officers as well as Marines. He was at Soissons, Champagne, St. Mihiel...
...passed several years ago authorizes officers decorated in World War I for services beyond the call of duty to go up one grade upon retirement. Veteran Tommy Holcomb commanded a Marine battalion in World War I, was under fire at St. Mihiel, Soissons, the Argonne. Lieut. Colonel Holcomb came out strewn with ribbons...