Word: olmstead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michael S. Olmstead '44 3G will be chairman of the meeting, which is the fourth in the series of Graduate Forums...
Warring (Y) defeated Henry Foster (H), 3-0; Olmstead (Y) defeated Hugh Foster (H), 3-1; McKittrick (H) defeated Gorman (Y), 3-1; Clark (H) defeated McAffrey (Y), 3-1; Millard (Y) defeated Ames...
...from a spacious compound in Kunming, a stone's throw from the terminus of the Burma Road. He bellowed, spark-plugged and steamrollered the Chinese divisions within the C.C.C. from an amorphous lump into a cohesive weapon. He was assisted by such capable officers as Brigadier General George Olmstead, 44, a levelheaded lowan who ran G5; and Brigadier General Paul Caraway, 39, West Point-trained son of Arkansas' Senator Hattie Caraway and an outstanding planner, who served as Deputy Chief of Staff...
Brigadier General George Olmstead, war-plans officer, organized many paratroop teams (six men to a team) consisting of Army & Navy volunteers, mostly medical personnel and signalmen. Each team was equipped with a radio and 500 Ibs. of concentrated foods and medicine. Included in most groups: at least one man who had worked as an Allied spy, maintained communication with U.S., British and Dutch prisoners in the Jap camps scattered from Manchuria to Indo-China...
Last week General Olmstead's men were ready. First, planes flew over the prison camps to drop leaflets warning the Japs that the parachutists were coming on a purely humanitarian mission. Then the transports flew over, unloaded their supplies...