Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Pointer (1923) and onetime assistant chief of experimental engineering at Wright Field, he became (1942) the first U.S. armed forces test pilot to fly a jet-powered plane-the pioneer XP-59. Saw active duty as commander of the Twelfth Air Force's 63rd Fighter Wing in North Africa. Appointed commandant of Wright Field's Air Force Institute of Technology (1948). Married and has two children...
...County Chieftain Lee Jong Hee presented himself to West Pointer Tandy with a request: Would the Colonel kindly give the people of Andong a new Bridge of the Rising Buddha? Said Tandy: "You supply the materials and the labor; I'll supply the engineers." Tandy assigned two crews of four G.I. engineers each. Each crew worked a twelve-hour shift. Lee supplied several hundred laborers-welders, carpenters, concrete men, a blacksmith...
...training program will leave combat soldiers little time for recreation. Commanded by Major General Harlan N. Hartness, 53, a tough, weatherbeaten West Pointer, the 4th will find itself very often working from 4 in the morning until dark. There will be plenty of all-night alerts. All combat units will spend grueling weeks at Grafenwohr, a 100-square-mile training ground on the Czech border, where Hitler trained his Afrika Korps...
George B. McClellan, only 34 and commanding the Department of the Ohio, shot to immediate popularity at the outbreak of the Civil War. Dubbed "Little Mac-the Young Napoleon," West Pointer McClellan soon commanded the Army of the Potomac, and by June 1862 was only four miles from Richmond when a strong force led by General Robert E. Lee caused him to retreat from his ill-starred Peninsular Campaign. Bitter because he had not been given reinforcements, McClellan telegraphed Secretary of War Stanton: IF I SAVE THIS ARMY NOW, I TELL YOU PLAINLY THAT I OWE NO THANKS...
...aloof, a teetotaler and a man of plain tastes who shuns all but the quietest social engagements. Likes hunting and fishing, married 35 years to former Helen Hazel Moore. They have three grown children all service folk: two daughters who are married to Army lieutenant colonels and a West Pointer son, James Jr., who is an Air Force lieutenant...