Word: xx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ties. McCarthy called him "not fit to wear that uniform," hounded him so unendurably in committee hearings and on the Senate floor that the Army counterattacked in the battle that led to the Senate resolution censuring McCarthy in December 1954. Zwicker is now a major general, commander of the XX Reserve Corps. *The nays, aside from Morse: Alaska's E. L. Bartlett and Ernest Gruening, Colorado's John A. Carroll, Montana's James E. Murray, Nevada's Howard W. Cannon, Ohio's Stephen M. Young, Pennsylvania's Joseph S. Clark, South Carolina...
Superspeed Film. Eastman Kodak Co. put on sale a new roll film in 35-mm., 620 and 120 sizes that is twice as fast as Kodak's Super-XX. The new TriX film will take indoor snapshots with ordinary light, night sports events without flash. Price: same as Kodak's Super-XX...
Slashing Envelopment. During the Battle of the Bulge, in which most of the Third Army was pulled out of line to carve a spectacular corridor north to isolated Bastogne, the XX Corps' principal job was to hold the whole of Patton's depleted former front. Walker did it by mining and wiring in depth, plus aggressive patrolling. When the Bulge was erased, Walker was thirsty for action-and he got it. In a roaring campaign he cleaned up the Saar-Moselle triangle, seizing the key German stronghold of Trier, then took a leading part in the Third Army...
...such windfall as the Remagen bridgehead fell into Walker's lap, but he crossed the Rhine at Mainz without fanfare, in assault boats. After that, the XX Corps' hardest fighting was at Kassel, where the Germans fought wildly and vainly to prevent Allied encirclement of the Ruhr. The Reich's back was broken and the rest of the XX Corps' progress, though not bloodless, was relatively easy. After Weimar, Jena, Nurnberg, Regensburg, Walker in early May reached Linz, in Austria, the farthest point of the Third Army's advance...
...Walker actually got to France ahead of the XX Corps as temporary replacement for Major General Charles Corlett, the XIX Corps (First Army) commander, who was ill. † Attila the Hun took Metz in 451 A.D. In the Franco-German war of 1870, the French surrendered it rather than starve. The Germans held it at the beginning of World War I and took it without a fight in World...