Word: noncombatant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soldiers and veterans are beginning to speculate on whether such opinions as voiced by this ex-holder of a noncombat commission will become the accepted version when memories fade...
...enlisted men-officers do not have to work, and few of them choose to-repair Army clothes, tools and noncombat Army equipment, build sheds, lay roads. The Army also hires them out as farm laborers, woodcutters, quarry workers. The prisoner-workers are paid 80? a day by the Army (in canteen coupons) and wages for their work, paid at prevailing rates, go directly to the U.S. Treasury. P.W.s have saved crops, released service troops for other jobs, and the U.S. Government last year rang up about $10,000,000 on the deal...
...time, they simply could not be spared. Their losses and those of other outfits had been almost fully made up. One division, which had had two regiments badly chewed up, got two complete new regiments. In addition to piecemeal replacements flowing through the usual channels, service units and other noncombat organizations in the rear were combed for fighting manpower. Special efforts were made to hurry replacement of officers...
...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...