Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German soldier will not have German uniform, but the same uniform issued to all the other troops of the European Army. Also, promised Blank, there will be no more goose step...
Best of the military Presidents was George Washington, who intended to make a career of the service, but got disgusted at lack of British recognition. After six years of active service and 13 years of retirement, he went back into uniform in 1774 and stayed in it until...
...French in Indo-China. "We are fighting," he said, "on a world battlefield for liberty . . . for peace." Few Americans took note of the wisdom behind those words. Many, on the other hand, noted the black band on the sleeve of the general's always impeccable uniform. It represented his only son, Bernard, killed in action in Indo-China just 15 weeks before. Close friends felt that General De Lattre never fully recovered from the shock of that loss, but to one he wrote soon afterward: "My pride is greater than my sorrow. You should send me compliments, not condolences...
...prince next popped up in 1940 wearing the uniform of De Gaulle's Free French air force. Soon afterward he went to Argentina, where he teamed with old friend Fritz Mandl, onetime Austrian munitions-maker who had also bet on the wrong fascist. Mandl, now doing business with Peron, put Starhemberg up in style, but the prince yearned for his own acres...
...said that UMT could "become a great moral force in this nation." Compton asserted that communities near training camps would be encouraged to form citizens' committees "interested in the improvement" of trainees' welfare. Compton thought that this would make "a wholesome and healthful atmosphere for our young men in uniform...