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In your July 23 issue you say a Fort Benning corporal "picked up a 57-mm. cannon . . . aimed it as casually as a shotgun . . . demolished a cordwood target 800 yards away." Secret of the kickless cannon: a backward powder blast through the breach-"a fiery column 12 to 15 ft...
Far more important to a lot of your readers would be the secret of Fort Benning's fireproof corporal.
It is too early to assay the quality of U.S. military leadership in World War II, as history will assay it. But the U.S. is winning this war, as it has won all others in its history, and 640 out of 1,497 of the Army's present general...
"My name's Harlow," announced the lad who had just landed in the Fort Benning guard house. "I'm in very high spirits. The M.P.s picked me up because these are no days for high spirits."
A paratrooper at Fort Benning said to Bernstein, "I wish to hell there was some other way of getting up here." "Don't you like to jump?" Bernstein asked. "I love to jump. I just don't like these damned airplanes." "I'm disappointed," said another after...