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General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, 62, now at, a spit-&-polish job (Chief of the Army Ground Forces), was remembered in a more casually dressed post (U.S. commander in the CBI Theater). One G.I., not recognizing the General as he wandered about the front without his star-spangled insignia, commented: "Just look at that poor old man-some draft boards will do anything...
General Joseph ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, battlewise commander of the Army Ground Forces and a veteran infantryman who has six medals and four campaign ribbons but rarely wears any, admitted that there was "just one medal" he would like to wear. "I have never been able to get it," he said. "I envy the infantrymen who have. . . ." The medal: Expert Rifleman...
...Expert Carl Sandburg has uncovered no versions of Frankie's pith-&-vinegar saga, some with as many as 30 stanzas...
...honor General Joseph Stilwell's part in the Burma campaign, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, who had forced "Vinegar Joe's" recall, last week named the newly opened Ledo-Burma highway Stilwell Road. The General was not present to see his dream of a new route from India to China come true. TIME Correspondent Theodore M. White, who was, cabled...
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...