Word: paratroopers
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...Russian atomic attack on the U.S. than cities like New York and Detroit. That is why he keeps his men on ever-ready alert; why all of them constantly wear sidearms ; why Offutt is fenced in and on the watch for saboteurs and guarded against paratroop surprise; why two men have been trained to spring to LeMay's side in case of trouble. It is why, too-though they know the decisions of state are not theirs to make-that men in SAC often fidget at the notion that they must first be hit before they can hit back...
...from Paris newsstands and burned them. Last month the morning paper had to barricade its doors and windows as 1,500 Communists rioted outside. They had made the most of the opportunity to protest against publication of the memoirs of Nazi Storm Trooper Otto ("Scarface") Skorzeny, who led the paratroop raid to release Mussolini...
...into the microphone to a small knot of farmers and townsmen: "I'm not satisfied with the farm price support bill ... I know you people don't want federal control of education and your Congressman will fight that . . ." He said nothing about his wartime exploits as a paratroop officer, when he led a patrol behind the German-line near Arnhem, returning with 32 prisoners and without a scratch. Mostly he told the people about the issues of the 81st Congress, and how to apply for a Farmers Home Administration loan, wound up offering to send a weekly news...
Died. Major General William Carey Lee (ret.), 53, hard-bitten founding father of the U.S. Army's Airborne Command; of a heart ailment; in Dunn, N.C. A non-West Pointer who stuck to the Army after World War I, Paratrooper Lee spent much of the '30s as a military observer in Europe, organized the Army's first experimental paratroop units in 1940, commanded the 101st Airborne Division till a heart ailment retired him to a desk job just before...
...Tell the Boss." In England early on the morning of June 6, 1944, the telephone rang. It was Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, who had opposed Eisenhower's plan to use paratroopers in the invasion of France. Now Leigh-Mallory had good news: paratroop losses seemed to be light, and things were going fine. "Grand, said I, grand, I'll tell the boss as soon as he wakes up. ... I tiptoed down the cinder path to Ike's circus wagon to see if he was asleep and saw him silhouetted in bed behind a Western...