Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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April 1, 1946, when Bradley was head of the Veterans Administration. Said TIME: "There is a quality of greatness about 53-year-old Omar Bradley-in his plain face and sense of humanity. Once, musing on a soldier's life, he observed that he had spent 30 years training himself to make decisions which would cost human lives. 'You don't sleep any too well from it,' he said quietly. Now the General's job is patching up shattered lives . . . The hazards and responsibilities of this peacetime assignment, in some respects, are greater than...
Gaping Limitations. It could be said for Omar Bradley, the old infantryman, that he had not made the mistake. He had preached an infantryman's belief in the foot soldier. "Air power, like every other weapon," he wrote, "has gaping limitations for war as we shall know it for many years to come . . . We shall once more be forced to gain the inevitable victory over our dead bodies-those of our soldiers on the ground...
...Combat Man." With proper leadership, the basic assets of the Korean soldier quickly asserted themselves. He has the good qualities of the World War II Japanese soldier-fierce courage, tenacity, obedience, and ability to live and fight on a shoestring. But instead of the bloodlust and ruthlessness of Japanese militarism, he is animated by the strongest urge known to military men-defense of one's own land against an invader...
Tito's Yugoslavia last week accused Stalin's Bulgaria of sending armed patrols across the frontier three times in one day. Shots were exchanged and a Bulgarian soldier was killed on Yugoslav territory...
Last Sunday evening Van Fleet laid a wreath on the unknown warrior's tomb in Athens. Standing at military salute, he recited a poem he had written as a last tribute to the Greek soldier...