Word: noncombatant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turned over to the Army and Lend-Lease: 11,000; lost in combat and noncombat operations, in training and through deterioration and obsolescence: some...
...Army had long known that when it reached full strength it would have more tail than teeth. Thousands of good soldiers would have to be tied up in noncombat duties, building the greatest supply system in history, training millions for battle...
...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...
...Noncombat casualties (105,512) are usually included in World War I figures...