Word: regimentation
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...radar. Secret until last week, counter-radar had cost the U.S. more than $300 million. But it saved many times that amount in ships and planes. -Headquarters for counter-radar was Harvard's Biological Laboratory. The lab's peacetime monkeys and pickled dogfish were replaced by a regiment of electronic engineers. Their job was to poke fingers into enemy radar eyes. To get in practice for far-off German and Jap radars, the Harvardmen picked on the Radiation Lab at M.I.T., a mile away. The bitter war raged across the roofs of Cambridge...
...contrary, on all sides we see evidence that the nation recognizes fully the necessity for reorienting our sights. We know that the end no longer justifies the means. We know that the collective demands of a group--a ship's company, a regiment or a bombing crew--no longer have life or death hold over an individual. For military courage we must substitute civic courage...
...Major General Henry D. Russell, 55, who began his Army career as a captain in the Georgia National Guard, commanded a regiment, then a brigade in World War I. One of the many National Guard division commanders swept out of their jobs when the country was mobilized for World War II, Russell nevertheless stayed with the Army as a member of the Manpower Board...
...dawn of last New Year's Day he was with the U.S. 71st Infantry Regiment of the 44th Division in Western Europe, when the regiment's advance was stopped by machine-gun fire. MacGillivary crept through deep snow to within three feet of an enemy position, shot the two Germans who manned it. The path was clear. Several hours later, six more German machine-gunnists blocked the 71st's advance. Again Sergeant MacGillivary went out alone. He got two German crews with grenades, a third with a submachine gun, before he was knocked out of action...
...steep Caraballo Mountains of northern Luzon, a battalion of the 127th Infantry Regiment last week came upon a vast road block-a chasm blasted by retreating Japs...