Word: oldfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sandy" Jarman has under him some of the toughest specimens in the U.S. Army. Toughest of the tough is Colonel Homer R. Oldfield, commander of a brigade of shore and anti-aircraft gunners on the Atlantic side of the Canal...
Mahogany-hued, leather-hided Colonel Oldfield is, among other valuable things, one of the most skillful "robbers" in the Army. By that word of praise Army men mean that he can find more ways to get needed materials for his outfit than a regiment of M.P.s and quartermasters could possibly guard...
Example: when Colonel Oldfield's men were short of lumber for their barracks, he sent them by night to strip the hulk of an old ship, forlorn on the shore of Gatun Lake...
Sued for Divorce. Barney Oldfield, 61, oldtime automobile daredevil; by Hulda B. Oldfield; in Los Angeles...