Word: noncombatancy
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...turned down desk jobs time & again. But despite his deep devotion to flying and fighting, modest, easygoing Colonel Hubert Zemke, of Missoula, Mont., finally decided that this would be his last combat mission before going on noncombat duty. Leading his fighter group in an attack on Hamburg, he ran into weather trouble, disappeared into a cloud. Last week the "fightingest" U.S. pilot commander in Europe was reported to be a prisoner in Germany...
Although it settles all legitimate claims for damage caused by its troops in noncombat activities, the U.S. Army does not pay for the things it destroys when it is actually waging war. When a U.S. Liberator, returning from a raid, crashed into the village school of Freckleton, England, U.S. soldiers carried the coffins of 36 children to a common grave. But someone else would have to pay for Freckleton's tragic damage...
...Turned over to the Army and Lend-Lease: 11,000; lost in combat and noncombat operations, in training and through deterioration and obsolescence: some...
...training job is done. By last week the Army was deep in a program of shifting its able-bodied service and administration personnel into the battle line. It hopes and intends to bring out at least half a million soldiers from desks and shops to combat duty. To fill noncombat jobs that still have to be filled, battle veterans and non-battle casualties fit for only limited duty are being brought back to rear areas...
Mechanics. The mechanics of transition could not be accomplished by a snap of the fingers. The War Department ordered all theater commanders to retrain noncombat personnel in a tough, twelve-week course. Conversely, rear-area units raided of their physically fit were allowed to be temporarily over strength so that combat veterans, taking over, could be trained for their new jobs...