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Marching through Georgia. Wedemeyer was born to soldiering and cradled to the strains of military music. His grandfather, a music master, emigrated from the politically seething Germany of 1840, organized a band for the Union Army and marched it through Georgia, presumably with General William Tecumseh Sherman. His father, Captain Albert Anthony Wedemeyer, served as a U.S. Army bandmaster in the Spanish-American...
Cold Cut. In Denver, a thief raided Lloyd Sherman's icebox, decided not to dally over the food, scrammed with $1,350 that Sherman was preserving in an ice tray...
...troubled War Department hastily went into reverse. On a technicality-that Major General Sherman Miles of the First Service Command had not been legally authorized to convene the court-the War Department vacated the case, rescinded the sentence, sent the four WACs back to their posts...
Dawn was not far past when U.S. search planes picked the fleet up southwest of Kyushu and flashed the word to Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's Task Force 58. Task groups under Rear Admirals Frederick C. Sherman, Arthur W. Radford, Joseph James ("Jocko") Clark and Gerald F. Began surged forward, ran for the oncoming Japanese. At noon they launched their planes...
Patton also knows his enemy's weapons and, among others in the field, has been defender of the highly maneuverable U.S. Sherman tank v. heavier German tanks. Last week the General apparently had a clinching last word in the tank argument. He could say: look where ours are, and look where theirs...