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...What had been Allied expectations? The General stepped up to the map with a wooden pointer. The plan was a bold one. It called for the Fifth Army to cut across Italy from Salerno and thereby cut off the Germans facing the Eighth Army in the south. The German, a very good soldier who takes a little time to make up his mind but then acts quickly, whipped two divisions from the Eighth's front and threw them in, with two other divisions, at Salerno. For a time the situation was very dangerous. The Allies turned on the whole...
...infantry camp, so to speak: at Madison Barracks, in upstate New York, a post near which onetime hard-drinker Ulysses S. Grant is said to have organized the Sons of Temperance. His father, the late Colonel C. C. Clark, was an infantryman, a career soldier and West Pointer, who exerted a large influence over...
...Washington last week came tall, lath-straight Lieut. Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr., until recently commander of the 99th Fighter Squadron, the Air Forces' first all-Negro fighter outfit. At a press conference West Pointer Davis, who led the 99th in Tunisia and Sicily, said that in his opinion Negro pilots had made the grade, and training them should no longer be regarded as an experiment...
From the Tenth Air Force (India) departed Major General Clayton L. Bissell, a year and a day after taking command. His successor: Brigadier General Howard C. Davidson, a West Pointer in Army aviation in World...
...Hills. Fanny Rouge and hundreds of planes like her grew out of 1940's Third Army maneuvers in Louisiana. Then artillerymen exploded after futile searches for hills high enough for observation posts or long waits for observation planes from the Air Corps. One West Pointer, Major (now Colonel) William Wallace Ford, a private flyer for seven years, knew the solution: light planes attached to each field-artillery .battalion. Wallie Ford made little headway until the next summer when light plane manufacturers lent a dozen puddle jumpers for the 1941 maneuvers. A new colonel named Dwight Eisenhower was impressed...