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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Durable D | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 1, 1941 | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...lawyer) for the Service of Supply. Later he was professor of law at West Point, adviser to a succession of international military conferences in Geneva between 1925 and 1932. Biggest military feather in his cap: handling of the troop movements of the A. E. F. for the St. Mihiel offensive, of the movements of the Fourth Corps into the Argonne. For this job he got the Distinguished Service Medal. At 60, spectacled General Strong sits at the ornate desk once owned by General Sherman, likes to show visitors its empty whiskey compartment (capacity: 15 quarts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Military Brains | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...here, Marquand left college to work for two years on the Boston Transcript. After America's entrance into the World War, National Guardsman Marquand, who had already seen service on the Mexican border, went overseas. As first lieutenant in the Field Artillery, he participated in the Marne-Aisne, St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAUL HERMAN BUCK RECEIVES PRIZE IN PULITZER AWARDS | 5/3/1938 | See Source »

...History of the World War, caustically analyzing the strategy of opposing generals, gives the impression that battles were almost as confusing to the professionals who planned and directed them. Readers who want to add to their knowledge of what happened at the Somme, the Marne, Cambrai, St. Mihiel, Mons-and why it happened as it did-can get some insight into the confusion from two recent volumes that review the history of the World War-one from a pacifist's, the other from a professional soldier's point of view-will find that it looks almost equally forbidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mars v. Militarism | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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