Word: vinegar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wedemeyer promised more aid to China. Hump-flown supplies have constantly increased. Means of distributing them more rapidly to front-line Chinese troops have been established through a new, topnotch supply organization. Wedemeyer began to surround himself with staff officers of a caliber not available to displaced General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell in China's earlier crises. For China's war effort, there was new life, new hope and heaven-sent weather...
General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, commandless since his removal from the China-Burma-India Theater (TIME, Nov. 13), heard with pleasure that his name was still active there. In a campaign he had planned, his son, Colonel Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., infantryman, West Pointer ('33), received the Legion of Merit for "meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services" in the Hukawng and Mogaung Valleys. In command of a Mars Task Force unit spearheading the advance on Mandalay was his son-in-law, Colonel Ernest F. Easterbrook, infantryman, West Pointer...
Fingers Crossed. U.S. Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer, in Chungking only a few weeks as "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's successor, sized up the situation as serious but not irreparable. Said Wedemeyer: the Japanese are using a well-trained, well-equipped army in China led by "a very able commander" with the intention of fighting the war in Asia rather than on Japan's home soil. Nevertheless, he predicted that the Japanese could be defeated within a year after victory over Germany. The U.S., said he, would concentrate on supply for Chinese troops, continue air support for the Chinese...
General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, commandless at his Carmel, Calif, home, shed his ribbonless four-starred khaki for slacks and an old black sweater, met the press informally. Mum on the subject of his removal from China, grizzled Vinegar Joe said his hat was off to this generation of U.S. fighting men, averred that his being at home just "waiting" was "very tough on Mrs. Stilwell," swore that he ranked around the house "right after...
...Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's successor as commander of U.S. forces in China, Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer, could say nothing more hopeful than that the situation was unfavorable, "but not irretrievable...