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...cost: $1), two 15? mirrors, 10? worth of adhesive tape. In casual tests during maneuvers in Tennessee, a gun with their sight got more hits than one with a complicated, expensive, and unsatisfactory affair which the Army had adapted to anti-tank use. General Staff officers and high-ranking artillerymen promptly beat a path to the doors of Yancey & Bean, decided their gadget was worth looking into...
...grown from 250 copies of eight pages, to a weekly circulation of 6,247 and 40 pages. In addition to the jungle outposts of the Panama Coast Artillery Command, the News also has a booming circulation in other Army outfits and among families and friends of Panama Coast Artillerymen. Subscribers, paying 25? to 50? per month, bought enough copies in April to give the News a net profit of $820 (which went into the soldiers' Athletic and Recreation Fund...
Army engineers eventually cut roads to the main positions; signalmen laid telephone cables. Otherwise, the artillerymen did it all themselves...
...songs, most were as familiar to civilians as they were to soldiers (The Last Roundup, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, The Star-Spangled Banner, Dixie, Casey Jones, etc.). Newer to rookies were the Army songs: > The Field Artillery's rollicking The Caissons Go Rolling Along, written for horse artillerymen, now has a modern parody: Over hill, over dale, motorized from head to tail, With the caissons and hosses all gone. Stop to fix up a flat, or to get the captain's hat, Motor trucks with pieces hooked on.* > The Army Engineers sing: The Captain says my rifle...
...that group of airmen who foresaw the coming role of air power many year ago, and insisted on an intensive program of offensive and defensive preparation. In German, Italy, and Russia the prophets got their gospel across, with results that must by now convince even retired admirals and artillerymen. But in this country, as in England and France, army and navy opposition blocked the full development of aviation. so this book, to a large extend, is Major Williams thumbing his nose at the admirals and generals...