Word: pointer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down-to-earth as ever. But he is a strict disciplinarian with the troop formations under his command. He is a bear on uniform neatness, a bug on such items of military smartness as saluting. Once in Eighth Air Force headquarters he took General "Tooey" Spaatz down because West Pointer Spaatz, steeped in the Air Force ways of offhand efficiency, had banned saluting in the corridors as a damned nuisance...
...nations, they feared no man on earth ex cept the few white officers who could lick them in hand-to-hand combat (barring knives, garrotes and guns). Among these were their own jumpmaster, a handsome golden-haired lieutenant who used to sell insurance, and their colonel, a 1938 West Pointer. When their C-47 troop carrier took off on Dday, a grimy mechanic waved and grinned. "Them poor goddam krauts," said he. The Indians' D-day assignment was tough enough to match their blood lust- dropping on the peninsula behind Cherbourg and blowing up approach roads...
Spaatz had the advantage of being a West Pointer, as well as an early birdman. By the time World War II broke out he was chief of the Air Corps plans section in Washington, and in 1940 he went to England to observe air war at first hand. That summer he wrote home...
...Giles brothers are identical twins, Texans and airmen. Neither is a West Pointer; both have been generals since the middle of 1942. It all started on Sept. 13, 1892 in Mineola, Tex. There the boys grew up on a farm; neighbors remember them as "the out-workingest hands and the best danged bird hunters in Texas...
...citation West Pointer Davidson read: "These missions, involving extreme operational hazards such as rough roads, cattle, goats, chickens, children and adverse weather, were carried out with courage, coolness, and determination, despite the expectation, probability and eventuality of long, fruitless waits for mail. On several occasions he encountered delays ranging up to one hour, sorely testing his patience, endurance and fortitude...