Word: presidio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marriage ended in tragedy. One night when he was on the Mexican border -on a tour of duty during which he later pursued "Pancho" Villa-his house in San Francisco's Presidio caught fire. His son Warren was saved, but his wife and three daughters were burned to death. His severity and ramrod correctness simply seemed to increase...
...Army's late Surgeon General William Crawford Gorgas, whose medical battle against yellow fever in the jungle made possible the building of the Panama Canal. *Who is not unsung. His name lives in the U.S. Army's Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco's Presidio...
...tout's secret that U.S. Delegate Warren Austin, as "personal representative" of President Truman, had formally offered to turn over to U.N. the Army's 2½-sq.-mi. Presidio, perched spectacularly above San Francisco Bay. But Russia's Georgi Saksin promptly demanded that San Francisco be barred from the track...
Faced with such an embarrassment of hospitality, the delegates could not make up their minds. Dodging a final decision, they recommended to the full 54-nation headquarters site committee a choice of three suitable areas: San Francisco's Presidio, Philadelphia's Belmont-Roxborough site, a tract near White Plains...
After tours of duty in the Pentagon and the Pacific, he took over command of the Sixth Army with headquarters at San Francisco's Presidio. There last week death came to Joseph Warren Stilwell, 63, after an operation on the liver. A 17-gun salute was fired, the flag was hauled down to the accompaniment of ruffles and flourishes. Uncle Joe would have snorted at such solemn ceremonial. But just 24 hours before he died, he had got his dying wish: on orders of War Secretary Patterson, he received the Combat Infantryman Badge...