Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Immediate objectives were the fortified road centers of Cleve and Goch. Field Marshal Montgomery called for a typical "Monty preparation"-an eleven-hour artillery barrage, plus an attack by 2,200 planes, including 700 heavy bombers. A German prisoner said later that six of twelve guns in his own outfit had been knocked out in the air attack...
...their third and final match of the winter season last Saturday at the Indoor Athletic Building, Henry Lamar's Crimson leather-swappers were outslugged 4-3 by a polished R.P.I. outfit...
...There was the 1st Cavalry, by number a regular outfit, in reality a division of both regulars and citizen soldiers. The division had long ago been mechanized-but it was still cavalry at heart and its' oldtimers still talked nostalgically of the stable call and of night marches to the rattle of horse accoutrements. In the 1st Division a company was still a troop, a battalion a squadron. Knife-nosed, 46-year-old Major General Verne Donald Mudge was its commander, a cavalryman since he left West Point...
There was the 11th Airborne Division, an outfit new in World War II. The ist Cavalry and the 37th Infantry Divisions were the first and second to get to Manila; the paratroopers came third. Their commander: Major General Joseph M. Swing, West Pointer and onetime artilleryman. North of them, still fighting on the salients driven south and east from Lingayen Gulf and across the base of Bataan from Olongapo, were seven other divisions...
Dick Gilbert, ex-Duke star, has averaged over 15 points per game to pace the outfit. Bob Gottschling, Jim Gallagher, and Harry McBath have also been up in the scoring, while Don Willard has stood out on the defense...