Word: noncombatant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army's first Distinguished Service Medal in the European Theater of Operations last week went to gruff and crusty Brigadier General Robert McGowan Littlejohn, ETO's chief quartermaster. Said the citation for the highest noncombat award: "marked aggressiveness . . . which met and solved many unexpected and seemingly unsurmountable problems of supply [including those of] the African Task Force...
...hustle my full field pack 35 miles in eight hours, the toughest trial our infantry soldiers have to stand in training. I have a college degree and plenty of experience in bossing jobs, yet I am and will continue to be a private on noncombat duty. There are plenty of others in the same boat (six in this company...
Hiking Party. Finally the objectives were overrun. The sweating Rangers reformed; the day's work was not over. It is never over. Toughest of all are the noncombat exercises sometimes sprung on the men when they have just finished exercises under fire. And toughest of those is the "speed march...
...that since the transocean ferry service was started last year, at least 100 U.S. Army pilots have made the trip. In Great Britain, scores of U.S. Army fledglings are flying in their own school squadrons, learning all that World War II can teach them about combat piloting (nominally in "noncombat areas"). If some of Colonel Olds's ferrymen get similar experience in transatlantic bombery, nobody in The Army Air Forces will be surprised...
Better sounding is the fact that plane production has actually doubled since last November. From last October till last week contracts had been placed for 44,836 combat and noncombat planes (16,000 of them for Britain and Canada). In addition plans have been made for 2,400 medium bombers and 1,200 heavy bombers, whose parts are to be manufactured by automakers and assembled in Government plants...