Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumors got around that it had been painted not in tempera (egg-white base) but in oils. As the years passed, the huge fresco on the refectory wall of Milan's convent church, Santa Maria delle Grazie, mildewed, flaked and scaled. The experts, who kept trying to patch up the painting with secret preparations of glues and varnishes, did it almost as much damage as time and weather...
Good Soldier Omar Bradley mounted the pulpit in the Central Christian Church of Moberly, Mo. Flyer Jimmy Doolittle flew his first Superfortress. Georgie Patton went to Sunday school; Carl Spaatz visited his 78-year-old mother (who told him: "You're just my baby boy"); leathery Alexander Patch brought back the gaudiest trophy yet: gewgawful Marshal Goring's diamond-studded marshal's baton...
...last trip, from Berlin to Flensburg to the north German moors, his shadow caught up with him. Heinrich Himmler, whom his fellow Nazis had ironically nicknamed "gentle Heinrich," had shaved his Hitlerian mustache, replaced his scholarly pince-nez with a black eye patch. He had become Herr Hitzinger. His papers were in perfect order. He loved order...
...soldiers wear an emblem on the left shoulder: insignia denoting Air Forces, Service Forces, corps, Army commands, etc. But the men who wear division patches wear them with special pride. Any patch may mark a fighting man but the division patch marks a man who has been assigned to fighting as his basic job. On the following pages are a few of the many division patches which have become symbols of American courage on battlefields around the world. The outfits mentioned here were chosen simply as a typical cross section of the U.S. divisions in this war which have gone...
...Armored Divisions. All armored division men wear the same gaudy, triangular patch; only the division number varies. The yellow in the patch stands for the cavalrymen, the scarlet for the artillerymen, the blue for the infantrymen; men of these three branches were originally thrown together to make up the first U.S. Armored Force, in July...