Word: unitization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army the American liaison advisers live in compact groups of 20 or 30, attached to each army headquarters with their own messes and own company to shield off loneliness. But in the old army and lower down the highway, an American unit consists of four to ten men, a couple of gasoline drums, the ubiquitous jeep, a radio, and 20 to 30 cases of dehydrated rations...
...York Times Correspondent Raymond Daniell visited a prominent German farming family in Thuringia, which soon was to be taken over by the Russians. The 20-year-old daughter of the family was indignant over "the betrayal of Germany to the Bolsheviks." She complained of a U.S. Army unit that had been briefly billeted on the farm, but was even more alarmed by the approaching Russian control...
Picasso's favorite soldier gift came last summer from an art student in a combat unit then fighting southeast of Paris. The soldier motorcycled in to see the artist. Picasso gave him a bath and a drink. The soldier noticed an empty coffee tin on the table; Picasso confessed that he liked coffee but couldn't get it. The soldier ran downstairs, climbed on his motorbike, lit out for the front. In a couple of hours he was back with a big tin of coffee...
...Airmen. Soon the Pacific command will be a full-fledged trinity. Ever since November 1944 the 21st Bomber Command, now bossed by tough, cigar-smoking Major General Curtis LeMay, has been an independent unit in the Pacific. It is a part of the Twentieth Air Force, commanded by General "Hap" Arnold and responsible only...
...editors of the Service News take pleasure in announcing the election of James G. Trager, Jr.'46, of Lowell House and Scarsdale, New York, as Editor. Trager, who previously served as Managing Editor, replaces Russell K. Headley '46, of the V-12 Unit and St. Paul, Minnesota. Other executive appointments will be made in the autumn...