Word: snowdrop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest oversnow airborne maneuver in Army history, the climax of "Exercise Snowdrop," latest in the Army's continuing research into the best way of fighting an Arctic war (others: Task Forces Frigid, Frost, Williwaw in Alaska, Wisconsin and the Aleutians). The jump was made by 500 men of the 505th Airborne Battalion Combat Team, a unit of the Army's famed 82nd Airborne Division...
...redecorated office General Dwight D. Eisenhower quietly did his paper work. On the London streets newly spruced U.S. military police, in white leggings, white webbing belts, white gloves, white helmets, cringed under the derisive G.I. appellation - "snowdrop...
...this glistening grandeur, the stiff-necks got an extra al lowance, but murmured through stern lips that the upkeep, especially of gloves, was terrific. The Provost Marshal called the new equipment an aid to dignity and blackout identification. The G.I.s called its rednecked wearers a distasteful new name: "snowdrop." Easy-going General Ike, who has a spit-and-polish West Pointer inside, decided the whole European Theater of Operations personnel needed sprucing up. He decreed snappier and more frequent saluting, and an end to the unsoldierly practice of looking away on crowded city streets, when a salute...
...Snowdrop. In Winter...