Word: platoonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that it is an Anglo-American organization like all other divisions and sections of Supreme Headquarters; . . . that it is a unique organization in this or any other war, being mixed "British-American, civilian-military, operating at all echelons, from the Chief of Staff's desk to the platoon commander's foxhole; that TIME'S reference is disturbing and offensive not only to the hundreds of non-OWI members of the organization but equally to those many OWI members who have worked long and hard to achieve effective integration of an Anglo-American civilian-military organization...
...officers, counting up recent gains, judged that the enemy's final stand could not be far off. Meanwhile the 281st Signal Platoon had discovered yet a new enemy. Armed with automatic shotguns, the signalmen were out hunting falcons. The falcons had been maliciously pouncing on U.S. carrier pigeons...
...here on the roughest front the 7th Division has yet bumped into in its four major operations, a platoon of doughboys from the 184th listened while I read to them your inspiring write-up on the President's death [TIME, April...
...Wang Yao-wu, a peppery, 40-year-old Shantung man. Stocky, muscular and tanned, like most Shantung peasants, he has a ferocious temper, a vivid and profane vocabulary. He is of the very core of the old Chinese Army, a Whampoa Academy cadet who fought his way up from platoon to army group commander. But in Hunan he used methods long neglected in China...
...first time in history, group sponsors will participate. There'll be 21 girl sponsors in all, one from each platoon leader, company commander, battalion leader, and the regimental commander...