Word: sheridan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dead Eye. In Fort Sheridan, Ill., the post rifle-shooting competition was won by one-eyed Sergeant Earl Tautages...
Some U.S. tank columns zigzagged to set up the final trap against the Seine, but that and the original Argentan-Falaise pocket were now of lesser importance. The 1944 versions of Sheridan's cavalry crunched over the Seine, ground around Paris. They could now prevent formation of any line short of the Rhine...
...Among the Confederate dead in Sheridan's victory at Winchester, Va., (in 1864) was Colonel George S. Patton, V.M.I, man and grandfather of the U.S. Army's No. 1 expert in tank warfare...
Soldiers will be sent first to "separation centers." Five have already been set up (Fort Dix, N.J., Fort McPherson, Ga., Fort Sheridan, Ill., Fort Sam Houston, Tex., Presidio of Monterey, Calif.) There G.I. Joe will get a physical examination, and medical treatment if he needs it. Finally discharged, he will get the money owed him plus travel pay, with the advice to lose no time in buying his ticket...
Such gullibility was traced farther back by John Morris in Traveler from Tokyo (Sheridan House; $2.75), Morris, an Englishman once attached to the Japanese Foreign Office as an adviser, wrote that Jap newspapers calmly assert that the airplane is a Japanese invention, that Jesus Christ was born in the north of Japan...