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World War II: Was at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Shackled to noncombat jobs until 1943, when he got a fine sea billet as captain of the new battleship Indiana in the Pacific. Proved himself a shrewd and relaxed combat officer. Once, when warned by the captain of the ancient Tennessee ("Old Blisterbutt") about making too much smoke, he coolly signaled back: "Smoke unavoidable. Forced to cut out the boilers and burn garbage to slow down to your speed." In 1944, promoted to rear admiral and assigned to MacArthur's theater; led an amphibian group safely through...
Hearts and flowers are taking second place to skulls and daggers on valentine cards this year, Square merchants reported yesterday. Billet-doux featuring miniature nooses are replacing the lace and satin affairs of times past...
...Icicles. General Lowe's reports were likely to be written any place from a billet in Pusan to a 6-29 over the Yalu River. And they were likely to cover anything from the use of tactical aircraft to the problems of the individual footslogger. In the evacuation of Hungnam, Lowe came out in the last wave. There he saw a soldier accidentally shot in the foot by a careless machine gunner. Aware that the G.I. might be accused of shooting himself in the classic method of avoiding combat, General Lowe bustled up. "My name is Frank Lowe," said...
...momently expecting death from heart disease, having his last fling at duck hunting, which he loves, and his last fling at love itself with an 18-year-old Italian countess in Venice. Hero Richard Cantwell is 51, a U.S. Army colonel demoted from general and stationed in a postwar billet in Trieste. His personal history and even some of his characteristics are startlingly parallel to those of Author Hemingway...
...After returning from the jeep ride, bruised, caked with dust, and armed with a good insight into the way General Walker works, I talked with some headquarters sources and turned in. I slept on the floor of a schoolhouse, which had been turned into a correspondents' billet, and I was lucky enough to get one blanket for bedding...