Word: pointer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Division: Major General Raymond O. Barton, 54, stocky, genial West Pointer, former professor of military science at Georgetown, rated a crack tactician...
...29th Division: Major General Charles Hunter Gerhardt, 49, West Pointer, cavalryman, son of a U.S. general; an expert marksman who once challenged any man in the division to a shooting match with rifle or pistol for a $2 side...
...79th Division: Major General Ira T. Wyche, 56, pocket-size (5 ft. 6, 135 lbs.) West Pointer; a field artilleryman in World...
...82nd Airborne: Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, 49, West Pointer, first U.S. commander to lead an airborne division into action (in Sicily); he jumped with his outfit into Normandy (he prefers parachuting to glider landing...
...star at 24. World War I was already well under way when Sanders was born (in Salt Lake City), and less than two months before Pearl Harbor he was still a second lieutenant. These facts are all the more remarkable because he is not a West Pointer. But in the University of Utah's R.O.T.C. he was an "A" student in military science and tactics. The only civilian job he ever had was running an elevator to finance his college social activities. After graduating from the Army's flying school at Kelly Field...