Word: noncoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officers sentenced to be shot. ''You have three important prisoners here," she told a sergeant major. "If you shoot them, I will see to it that you yourself are shot when the Americans reach here." The authority in her words and manner was too much for the noncom. The gates were opened and the four walked out. "It was the bravest deed I ever saw," said one of the officers later...
...silent drill of the 558th Infantry Rifle Platoon, a crack Negro outfit which used to be General Lucius Clay's honor guard; the soldiers went without music or orders through intricate, breathtakingly precise evolutions that would have overwhelmed the British Grenadiers-or the Rockettes. Exclaimed one former Wehrmacht noncom: "Why, they're practically better than the Prussians...
...pilot of a bomber approaching the airdrome hastily retracted his landing gear. On an occasion when Jimmy was drilling a squad of recruits in a Wellington park, another squad half a mile away had to quit because they couldn't hear the commands of their drill sergeant, a noncom of impressive voice who was known as "Screaming Skull...