Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long, bloody drive that was to end in the heart of Germany. On that day the ist Infantry Division landed at French-held Oran. Behind the ist was a great record. In World War I the entire ist had won the green and red French fourragere which the outfit still wears proudly, looped over the left shoulder...
...Forty-Fifth. Indians in the 45th Division staged a war dance at Camp Patrick Henry, Va. just before the outfit headed overseas. In July 1943, the 45th landed in Sicily. "The Thunderbirds," a National Guard outfit from Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico, had been well and lengthily trained. The 45th did all right in Sicily...
...Eighty-Second. In 1940, U.S. airborne divisions were only a fanatical idea. Two years later, the promising 82nd Infantry Division (Sergeant Alvin York's outfit in World War I) was turned into an airborne division, with Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway in command. At the same time the 101st Airborne was newly activated under Major General William Carey Lee, the man who fathered the radical doctrine. The two outfits began intensive training...
...civilian sport experience have been coming out of training schools at the rate of 250 a week. Their job will be to organize company, regimental and divisional sport competition to keep G.l.s busy until they are transferred to the Pacific or sent home. Enough football equipment is available to outfit 700 squads of 25 men each, enough softball paraphernalia for 600,000 players, 36,000 basketballs (and 50,000 uniforms) for thousands more; in all, some $7,500,000 worth of athletic supplies...
...title are members of the armed forces stationed in the United States who hear symphony music performed by a noted orchestra on tour of service camps. June Allyson and and Marsha Hunt head a troupe of girl instrumentalists manning the violins for victory, Durante acts as manager of the outfit and general good humor man, and Miss O'Brien goes along as mascot. There are frequent syrupy interludes of worry about Joe, Miss Allyson's husband who is missing in the Pacific, but there are also magnificent renditions of Handel's "Messiah" under the baton of Iturbi, and "Au Clare...