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Word: xxiv (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day from General Walsh's brassbound ranks emerged two dissenters. The 49th (California) Division's retired artillery commander, Major General John W. Guerard, 50, a peacetime lawyer and XXIV Corps South Pacific veteran, upheld the Army viewpoint. He observed that "the day has gone when any lunkhead could have a rifle shoved in his hands and some officer would march out in front and wave a saber and say 'Charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: It Was Murder | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Lieut. General John B. Coulter, 59, deputy com mander of the Eighth Army: West Texas Military Academy, 1911; cavalry lieutenant on Mexican bor der, 1916; aide to commanding general of 42nd Divi sion in World War I; commander, 85th Division in Italy, World War II; commander, XXIV Corps occupying Korea, 1948; commander, I Corps 1949-50; returned to Korea last August as the late General Walton Walker's troubleshooter-in-chief, later became commander of IX Corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: NEW COMMAND TEAM IN KOREA | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...division fought its last and most important battle on Okinawa, which was to become the base for the B-29s' final murderous raids on Japan. At Okinawa, the division was no longer alone-it was part of an amphibious force with the 6th Marine Division and the XXIV Army Corps. By V-E day, the 1st had won 19 Congressional Medals of Honor, 71 Navy Crosses and a large number of other honors, including 18,337 Purple Hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: The First Team | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

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