Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...modern mission of cavalry is reconnaissance, screening advances, protecting flanks and rear in retreat. Men on horses still travel fast through woods, swamps, across streams where mechanized equipment cannot go. Last week, on the tree-fringed parade ground at Fort Oglethorpe, the U. S. Army's one modern cavalry regiment with full equipment showed its paces before leathery Brigadier General Charles L. Scott...
...Poor observation and wishful thinking probably have at times padded R. A. F. reports of Germans downed. Probably the British also withheld part of their own losses (planes destroyed on the ground, etc.). But German reports day after day of lopsided air victories seemed incredible in the face of agreement among neutral military observers that the British planes were better, British pilots better trained...
...black men les enfants perdus (the lost children) because of their separation from the rest of the A. E. F. The regiment lost 1,100 men killed and wounded, won 172 individual French and American decorations, was able to brag that it had never lost a foot of ground to the enemy or surrendered a prisoner to him. By Armistice, it had spent more time in action (191 days) than any other U. S. outfit, and when it marched up Fifth Avenue in February 1919, the green-and-red ribbon of the French Croix de Guerre floated from the staff...
...Home Guard is a military force, orderly established, and as such, according to international war regulations, fully justified to resist an enemy with arms. This can be seen by the wording of The Hague Convention of 1907, applying to the usages and laws of ground warfare...
...took refuge from the Italians in Djibouti, was to have led this; uprising, but France's surrender damped! the project. Last fortnight an armistice, commission ended Djibouti's state of siege,, opened to Italy its terminal of the strategic: railroad to Addis Ababa. But even without above-ground leadership, the Islamic followers of the late Lij Yasu can cause plenty of trouble, and somewhere in the northeast hills is Haile Selassie's ablest oldtime; general of all: Abebe Arragia, who learned! soldiering at France's strict Academy of; St. Cyr, who speaks Italian as well...