Word: mihiel
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...already founded the Nashville Tennessean and served as a U.S. Senator. When the U.S. entered World War I, Lea and MacPhail organized a volunteer regiment of back-country Tennessee mountaineers. Accepted by the Army as the 114th Field Artillery, they went to France, where they survived the St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives...
...same red blood that coursed the veins of the men who beat the flower of the German Army at Belleau Wood, St. Mihiel and the Argonne, and broke the Hindenburg Line, flows swiftly, too, through the veins of the heroes of the glorious victories of the Coral Sea and Midway...
...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...