Word: regimentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on your article, "DDay in Europe" [June 8]. It brought back many memories for me. I was a member of the 502nd Parachute Regiment of the loist Airborne Division, which dropped in the area of St. Martin-de-Varreville on Dday...
...millhand in a carpet factory at Thompsonville, Conn., two years as a bond salesman in Wall Street, whose leaders hated his father. Like T.R., he joined the Army as the U.S. got into war; in June 1917, a Reserve Army officer, he went to France with the 26th Infantry Regiment, First Division, was followed by Eleanor, a volunteer worker for the Y.M.C.A. Old T.R. liked that. When told that Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law had joined the Y.M.C.A., T.R. said: "How very nice. We are sending our daughter...
...jaunty birthday boy josh and rejoin in top form. From Detroit, Eleanor Roosevelt declared that "the character of my friend was proved on that terrible day [when F.D.R. died] . . . Later I thrilled to watch him grow to greatness." Monsignor L. Curtis Tiernan, chaplain of Artillery Captain Truman's regiment in France in World War I, told how Harry had averted panic, when his men were caught in crossfire, with some "good, plain Missouri talk." Had the chaplain rebuked Harry for his ear-scorching remarks? Replied Tiernan: "Oh, hell no!-sorry." On a pickup from the Chicago wingding, Adlai Stevenson...
Second, he has embarked on an ambitious endowment fund to build the Department library into a worthwhile collection on military studies and national security. The Shannon Fund, named after Col. James T. Shannon, commander of the Harvard Regiment in World War I, has, at latest count, collected $1760 of its $5000 goal...
...From the day he enlisted in television's army Sept. 20, 1955, Master Sergeant Ernie Bilko (Phil Silvers) was obviously just the sort of career soldier whom TV sorely needs. Week after week, the Phil Silvers Show gave Bilko a chance to prove that noncoms really run the regiment, and week after week Bilko proved that he rated his stripes. Bolder than the brass he heckled, brasher than the brightest operator in his informal command, Bilko ran his outfit with the earthy, barracks-brand humor that can make service life (and TV watching) tolerable. He was one of those...