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...West Pointer Stilwell knew well enough what had got him and his men thrown out. The question was whether he could sell his story to the staff at New Delhi-in time for this...
...West Pointer (1915), pioneer Army tank officer and graduate of the service's best schools, Texas-born Eisenhower also has something that no school can give a soldier: common, practical sense. But common sense alone could not explain his swift and steady rise in the past six years to pivotal staff jobs. (Back in 1935 Douglas MacArthur picked him as his No. 2 man when he went to the Philippines as Commonwealth Military Adviser...
...West Pointer Wainwright knows all about Bushido, all about the treatment the Jap has already given to U.S. prisoners, particularly Filipinos. He gave the note the answer it deserved: he ignored it. Along the front the firing grew...
...found our fears gravely confirmed when, emerging from the subway the other day, we chanced to overhear two young ladies who were quite absorbed in the blue-clocked splendor of a West Pointer sweeping by. "Gee," we heard one of them question, "d'ya s'pose he's Australian...
Like his boss, General George Catlett Marshall, General Lee is not a West Pointer. He joined the Coast Artillery as a second lieutenant in 1909, after graduating as a civil engineer from the University of Missouri. (One of his contemporaries at Missouri was War Production Administrator Donald Nelson.) He served with the Field Artillery in World War I, got the Distinguished Service Medal in 1922. After the war he commanded a battalion in the Philippines...