Word: paratroop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planes which could strike at the Viet Minh Communist artillery zeroed in on the airstrip. Outside his ward in the military hospital at Hanoi, the corridors are filled with other wounded, in cots crowded head to foot in a row. The legionnaire talks matter-of-factly of the paratroop drop and of the wound he got only half an hour after landing; no heroism, no bravado, no whimpering, just acceptance of his fate and future. You are reminded of his face often when anger rises in you over the situation in Indo-China. You find yourself resisting the impulse...
...interrogation, sat the four beribboned nominees (see cut)-prospective Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Arthur Radford, the Navy's schoolmasterish-looking Admiral Robert Carney, the Air Force's handsome, white-maned General Nathan Twining and the Army's General Matthew Ridgway, stiffly erect in paratroop boots...
Departing from the steps of the Newton City Hall at 6:00 a.m. amid shouts of "give 'em hell for Newton," he began his army career. Though originally intended for physical instructors school, by virtue of a wrong turn he arrived at Fort Benning, Ga., and paratroop school. There followed a three week intensive course and successful jump. But his knee injury acted up so violently that he was shipped to Murphy General Hospital and finally discharged in September...
...solved the Mediterranean land-force muddle by splitting the land command in two: one force (Allied Land Forces Southern Europe) to be commanded by the Italian; the other (Allied Land Forces Southeastern Europe) to be commanded by an American (possible choice: Admiral Carney's able chief of staff, Paratroop Major General James Gavin). Still bobbing becalmed in a command vacuum, however, are Mountbatten's British warships. The U.S. argues that it has more ships in the Mediterranean and more knowledge of carrier tactics; the British say that the Mediterranean has traditionally been their concern, and besides, that...
...restraining ties were loosening. British engineers, protected by a paratroop brigade and tanks, bulldozed an evacuated Egyptian hamlet off the ' map to build a road between the garrison and its water filtering plant. Commanding General Sir George Erskine decreed: "All routes in and out of Suez are closed . . . I will not accept armed [Egyptian] police anywhere near my troops...