Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virginia pine barrens, a soldier stood methodically thrusting copies of a neat, mimeographed pamphlet into the hands of arriving draftees. The cover bore the grape-leaf emblem of the 43rd ("Winged Victory") Division, and the first page carried a message from its commander: "You have just joined the best outfit in the Army ... I expect to see you doing your jobs as soldiers in the best division in the best Army in the world. (Signed) Kenneth F. Cramer, Major General, Commanding...
...43rd, a National Guard outfit from Connecticut, Vermont and Rhode Island, had left New England last September filled with high patriotism and thoughts of past glory (four Presidential Unit Citations, 987 Silver Stars, 75 D.S.C.s and two Congressional Medals of Honor in the Pacific area in World War II). On paper, it figured to be a good division. More than 70% of its officers had combat experience, 74% of the men were high-school graduates, 18.4% had attended college, 90% of the division was under...
...supposed to be a training outfit for the parent Brattle Hall people and started operations modestly with performances by stroking players in the Houses...
Besides hunting Chinese Reds and Korean snails, Buster serves as adviser to his outfit on all matters zoological. He has taught them to recognise a poisonous snake or two, and during the pre-battle lull he gave them the word on swimming in the Han: little danger of schistosomiasis because oncomelania prefer narrow, shaded streams. A good chance of picking up paragonimiasis because the broad, open river might have Paragonimus westermani...
...Broke! (from the regimental motto, a piece of Hawaiian dice-shooting slang for "Shoot the works!") follows the outfit from a U.S. training camp into the heat of the Italian and French campaigns. It tells the story largely in terms of a Texas-proud lieutenant (Van Johnson) whose Nisei men gradually overcome his prejudice against them. At the climax, the 442nd's rescue of a trapped battalion of the 36th (Texas) Infantry Division in France's Vosges Mountains, even Johnson's diehard, Jap-hating buddy (Don Haggerty) takes the Nisei to his bosom...