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...shell-rimmed glasses: to his pugnacious Irish privates he looked like something of a milquetoast. At the start he was perhaps the most unpopular captain in France. But he led his men doggedly through St. Mihiel and the Argonne, spiked a panic when German artillery once drew a bead on his battery, lost only one soldier killed and one wounded, was promoted to major. On the ship back from France his men took a cut out of all crap games, bought him a monstrous loving cup four feet high and big enough to hold ten gallons...
...force was inexperienced, but it quickly became less so. A gunner drew a bead on a dive-bomber, said: "Here's where I get one for my brother." He did. Captain Sidney Combs, of Lexington, Ky., took cover behind a tank until a land mine exploded under it and injured the crew. Combs amputated the tank captain's leg with a knife, crawled into a foxhole and directed the artillery fire. Pounded by Stukas, the U.S. force pressed on, reached its objective, destroyed enemy installations and withdrew...
...Zero attacked Gus Widhelm-Jap aviators are trained to attack the squadron leader. "I pulled my nose up," Widhelm says, "and put my bead just about half a cowling above him and held the fire right there until he flew into it. He burst into flames...
...Surprise. For a moment we thought we had surprised the Japanese. Then suddenly heavy machine guns began to scratch the heavens with fire. We were hedgehopping, coming directly out of the moonlight. Every Japanese machine gunner seemed to get the bead on our bombing run as we skimmed low. The tracers' red, blazing prongs of light flashed by our windows. I was up in the nose with the squadron bombardier, Lieut. George Stout, and it seemed as if we were darting through a corridor of flaming sheaves...
Miss Boothe drew a bead on the Administration for talking a "tough" war but fighting a "soft" war. She demanded as essentials in toughening up the U.S. war effort: the appointment of a unified military command; a unified economic command; a unified political command...