Word: platoonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in the history of the Unit at Harvard group sponsors will participate in the ceremonies. Each platoon leader, company and battalion commander, and the regimental commander has chosen a girl to act as sponsor for his group. Flowers will be presented to the sponsors before the review. Also for the first time, Harvard will have a chance to hear the newly formed V-12-NROTC Drum and Bugle Corps...
...Robertson arranged with the commander to send a delegation across the river to meet U.S. higher-ups. Colonel Charles M. Adams, commanding the 273rd, greeted the delegation at his regimental headquarters, then started out for the Russian camp at two o'clock in the morning, with a platoon in ten jeeps. When they arrived at six, there was more grinning, saluting, backslapping, feasting and toasting...
...years ago Ridgway was not even involved in U.S. airborne training. Neither was anyone else. U.S. airborne activities began in 1940, in a shy and tentative way, with an experimental platoon of 48 men and a couple of lieutenants. There was no ready-made body of doctrine or data: in the beginning some of the best information came from the Department of Agriculture's forestry experts, who knew something about parachuting men & materials to fight forest fires...
Like a sensitive plant growing in a bull pit, the U.S. paratroop platoon modestly expanded to a battalion, then to a provisional group...
...followed from a regimental command post in a cellar the clearing of a row of houses. Reports were pouring in. Somebody had reached the balcony at Number 6. ... Badanov's platoon had just got level with the tall grey house. . . . Someone else's assault detachment had broken into a cellar. ... Then: 'We have reached the second floor and are fighting in the corridors.' ... By morning the houses had been captured...