Word: siting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief of the Army's new Tank Destroyer Command. The General went from a course in dairy husbandry at Texas A. & M. into border fighting and World War I, emerged with a D.S.C., Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with Gold Star (twice). No martinet, he picked the site of Camp Hood not only for its mud and its sweaty climate, but because he liked Cow House Creek which runs through it, providing seven fine swimming holes where parboiled tankers can cool...
...greatest U-boat building yards, the Deschimag works. Also important to second front possibilities was the fact that Bremen's sprawling docks funnel most of the German Army's supplies to Norway. It is a funnel that must be plugged if Norway should be the site of a frontal assault. Bremen, too, was the home of commerce-raiding, long-range Condor planes and the Focke-Wulf aircraft plant, where some of Hitler's deadliest fighter planes were built. Aerial photographs showed that Focke-Wulf machine and pressing shops had sustained a heavy bomb hit, destroying a quarter...
...days at the glider Air Academy at Twentynine Palms -going up with the students, getting the dope on equipment, organization, training. He jolted around with the Army's new tank destroyer corps at Camp Hood in Killeen, Texas, where they had to move a cemetery to get the site they wanted. In the California desert at Indio (very hot in the shade and no shade) he saw our new desert warfare battalions being whipped into shape, heard General Patton applying the lessons our side has learned in Libya. And he got the opposite picture (and also some welcome cool...
...times still survive. At the old Persian-founded city of Derbent, on the Caspian, stands an ancient citadel, its walls and wooden, iron-framed gates forming a barrier between the mountains and the sea. The famed Georgian Military Highway, from the North Caucasus to Georgia, skirts the site of the historic ironbound Daryal gates, which in ancient days closed the Daryal Gorge. Many a solitary cliffside mountain village still has its ancient watchtowers, frowning down on all approaches...
...Buckminster Hotel will probably be the site of a jam session next Sunday, which Frankie Newton and Peewee Russell may very possibly attend. . . . By next week I expect to have some nice things to say about the Red Allen band which opens tonight at the Ken. And not long after that a valedictory from here will be in order...