Word: platoonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Advancing in the Remagen bridgehead, Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army men brought the highway under artillery fire, then inched forward to machine-gun range. Thus they cut an important Nazi lateral communication line ori the east bank of the Rhine. Finally a 78th Division platoon, led by a staff sergeant, crossed the road in what one correspondent called "a gallant, old-fashioned infantry charge across 250 yards of coverless, fire-swept ground." At week's end the Yanks were astride the road along a six-mile stretch and had pushed a mile beyond...
...Like a platoon of daring turtles, U.S. art critics stuck their necks way out last week. The extrusion occurred in Cincinnati, where Art Museum Director Walter Siple had the bright idea of showing the "Critics' Choice" in contemporary U.S. art. Result: from 57 of the nation's professional art tasters, 57 varieties of painting...
...Wash., one Arthur Admiral signed up for service in the Navy. In Pensacola, Fla., Chester O. Ensign Jr. was commissioned a Naval ensign. At Camp Beale, Calif., a new arrival was Private Kemp Beale. Fighting side by side with the Third Army, a 2nd Lieut. Patton outranked, in his platoon, a Private Eisenhower. Missing in action in Luxembourg was Chief Warrant Officer Ralph States, son of Mr. & Mrs. United States of Ridgway...
Sergeant Arnold A. Petry of Long Beach, N.Y. knows his Germans. He fights them armed with two automatic pistols and a Thompson submachine gun. When his platoon was surrounded in an apple orchard west of Tettingen, Germany, the sergeant growled to his men: "We won't surrender...
Friend or Foe? American tanks from the west clanked into Mongyu at 11:30. The first American, Brigadier General George W. Sliney, hiked in on foot with a platoon of Chinese troops from the Burma side. The cocky little foot soldiers who had mopped up the north Burma jungle saw a knot of blue-grey, raggle-taggle men at the junction and wanted to fire on them. Sliney threw himself in front of the Bren gun. They were Chinese from the other side of the block and they cheered and yelled as the American walked...