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Command Decision is a 1949 war film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, and Brian Donlevy, and directed by Sam Wood, based on the 1948 stage play of the same name written by William Wister Haines, which he based on his best-selling 1947 novel.
The corps undertook several short journeys – up the Bitterroot Valley by bicycle to deliver dispatches, north to the St. Ignatius area, and through Yellowstone National Park – before making a 1,900-mile (3,100 km) trip from Fort Missoula to St. Louis in 1897. The Army concluded that while the bicycle offered limited military potential, it ...
LTTE bicycle infantry platoon north of Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka, in 2004. The use of the cycle as an infantry transport tool continued into the 21st century with the Swiss Army's Bicycle Regiment, which maintained drills for infantry movement and attack until 2001, when the decision was made to phase the unit out. [11]
Erick Cedeño received a hero’s welcome when he rode his bicycle into the front drive of the Missouri History Museum The post Bicycle Nomad and others recreate 1,900-mile ride of Buffalo Soldier ...
Command Decision, a 1948 World War II film starring Clark Gable; Command Decision, a 1948 World War II play starring James Whitmore; Command Decision, a novel by Elizabeth Moon in the Vatta's War series "Command Decision" (Dad's Army episode), a 1968 episode of Dad's Army; Command Decision, a series of miniature wargames by Game Designer's Workshop
The volunteer corps was led by Lieutenant James A. Moss and the 25th and the volunteer group tested the feasibility of the bicycles by completing long-distance trips. [4] The first trip was a four-day, 126-mile trip to Lake McDonald, directly north of Fort Missoula.
Brig. Gen. Patrick R. Michaelis is retiring after becoming the commanding general at Fort Jackson in 2021.
Command Decision is a war novel by William Wister Haines, [1] serialized in 1946–47 in four parts in The Atlantic Monthly. [2] It was published in book form in 1947. It was developed from the unproduced play of the same title in order to provide a market for a Broadway production that followed in 1947, then adapted as a film in 1948.