Word: platooner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a war was the American Revolution. In it fought Sergeant Roger Lamb, whom Officer Robert Graves of the Royal Welch Fusiliers discovered while teaching his platoon their regimental history in 1914. Quarter of a century later, Graves had decided the American Revolution was "the most important single event of modern times." And, visiting in Princeton, N. J., he was struck by the U. S.'s magnificent reception of George VI and his Queen. Graves's thoughts returned to Sergeant Lamb. Result is a fresh and provoking historical romance, Sergeant Lamb's America, out this week...
...fleet and charming ballets interrupted by specialty turns and, not often enough for many spectators, Joe Cook. Steel runners on ice add many mobile possibilities to the human body, and these have never been better exploited, thanks largely to the choreography of Catherine Littlefield & Robert Linden, which avoids boring platoon movements and sticks to free, whirling ballet designs...
Lieutenant Richard W. Annand's platoon ran out of ammunition while defending a blasted bridgehead on the Dyle River in Belgium. The Germans started across the river. Lieut. Annand ran forward alone into machine-gun fire, bombarded the enemy with hand grenades, drove them back with more than 20 casualties. Later that night, though wounded, he repeated the performance. When he was finally ordered to withdraw his platoon, he did so in good order, but found his batman (orderly) had been left behind. He went back, fetched the orderly in a wheelbarrow, then passed...
...most formidable post-World-War I innovation, contains some 450 tanks. It includes a tank brigade and a motorized infantry brigade. The tank brigade is divided into two regiments each of two battalions. Each battalion has three light and one medium tank company. Each company is subdivided into four platoons. In the light tank companies three of the platoons consist of three tanks (one the leader's) with a machine gun and a 20-mm. gun apiece, two with two machine guns. The fourth platoon's tanks all carry 37-mm. guns. In addition, a tank company includes...
...Leonard Lockhart had been a soldier on the Western Front. One summer's day, after he saw every comrade in his platoon wiped out, he collapsed with "shell shock." Unlike most victims, he pulled himself together and soon returned to the trenches. But several times after the war, when faced by small crises, he completely lost his memory for a few hours...