Word: commandos
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...toymakers have been busy all summer constructing, out of unrationed wood, PT boats, cannons, anti-aircraft guns, jeeps, tanks and commando cars (strong enough to hold father's weight). They christened their products "militoys," last week showed them to Christmas buyers...
...Colonel went to General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth for a refresher course. When he rejoined his men, they were at Major General Andrew D. Bruce's new tank destroyer school at Camp Hood, Tex. (TIME, July 13), proud of setting records in the school's tough commando obstacle course. Not to be outdone, the Colonel then set the record for battalion commanders...
...Ohio high-school coaches formally petitioned Ohio State's athletic board to try their 32-year-old colleague, promised to steer the cream of their football crops to the University if it did. But to jump from scholastic football into the Big Ten requires the courage of a Commando. Pedantic Paul Brown...
Finally reinforcements came: young Canadians taking a commando course at Kingston, Ont. On Canadian Thanksgiving (Monday), after the prisoners had gone two days without food, the energetic future commandos, hooting like Indians, carried out a planned campaign. They battered through the camp door with a telephone pole, chopped a hole in the roof, bayoneted the windows, turned a fire hose in. After 35 minutes of high-pressure water and tear gas, the Nazis marched out smartly in military formation...
Stanch, dignified old War Secretary Henry Stimson had only scorn for enthusiasts of dirty commando tactics. At Randolph Field, Tex. last week he warned cadets: "You must go into battle to fight with the skill and courage of the Axis, but not with their cruelty and brutality. When you go into battle you will be equipped with the finest material an enlightened government can provide. But in addition to this, you must be brave, and as representatives of a free republic you will have an indefinable something that your enemies don't have and never will possess...