Word: regimentations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major General George S. Patton Jr., 55, commander of the Second Armored Division at Fort Benning. His rank kept him remote from the men of Company D, 68th Armored Regiment (Light). Yet, to all of them, The Old Man was as near and real as the pine bark on the outer walls of their makeshift mess hall. Like God (they said) he had the damndest way of showing up when things went wrong. Unlike God, he had been known to dash leglong into a creek, get a stalled tank and its wretched crew out of the water and back into...
...succession of new drivers. But he could never quite believe that anybody else could ever get to know his tank.¶ A cold, damp wind swept Fort Benning when Sergeant Pullen's tank rumbled into line with the rest of Company D and the 68th Armored Regiment. Company D was well back in the regimental column. The Old Man, with the visiting generals and civilians around him near the reviewing tower, was an indistinguishable blob to Sergeant Pullen and his men. An officer's indeterminate bellow floated down the wind. Sergeant Pullen and his three-man crew took...
...balls, were inducted into the Army, prepared to start a year's training at Fort Meade as the First Battalion 176th Infantry. In the next two weeks two more noted socialite units will be inducted: Philadelphia's First Troop City Cavalry and Manhattan's swank Seventh Regiment (207th Coast Artillery). Clad in regulation olive drab, they will be in camp by the end of the month...
...splendor of its full-dress regalia (see cut) is produced by a combination of Wellington boots, buckskin breeches, blue blouses with silver buttons, yards of braid, bearskin-topped helmets. For the annual formal banquets in its Armory, the Troop (now Troop A, 104th Reconnaissance Regiment) has its own china and silver (made for its 100th anniversary in 1874), adorned with its helmet and sabretache...
Colonel William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan, commander in World War I of New York's "Fighting Sixty-Ninth" Regiment and in World War II Frank Knox's unofficial military observer inspecting the equipment and resources of countries at war or approaching it, arrived last fortnight in the Balkans. He had already spent several weeks in London, several days with the British forces in Africa. His first Balkan stop was Sofia, where he straightened his tie and went to call on the King. Leaving the Royal Palace, he discovered that his wallet containing passport, money and letters of introduction...