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...Army went out of its way last week to spike grisly rumors that fantastic numbers of U.S. soldiers have been dreadfully maimed. Brig. General Fred W. Rankin, chief consultant in surgery, reported: 1,194 soldiers have had limbs amputated;* 68 of these have lost two limbs. Rankin added, "There was not a single triple amputation nor was there a single quadruple, or so-called 'basket type' of case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - The Armless & Legless | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Childress, Tex. and his 19-year-old son Jack joined the Marines together. Once Jack was transferred to another company, but he raised such a row they moved him back. He and Pop, who was a veteran of the last war, would serve together or go to the brig together. Together they were in the attack on Kwajalein. It was Jack's first and last action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Father & Son | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...think we've turned military on our side of the river, lend an car to be latest plight of our representatives at Wellesl'ey. In a note from the brig of Eat feline haven, Hafner reports the following: "Come Wednesday and we had an inspection by WAVES. One of the more corpulent numbers asked Goff if he curled his eyelashes as well as his hair. "Laughed, hence the present address...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 3/24/1944 | See Source »

...Brig. Gen. Munnikhysen went into the cavalry upon graduating from West Point. He also transferred to the QMC in 1920 and attended the Army War College, Army Industrial College, and General Staff School before being stationed here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREGORY WILL ADDRESS 186 ASOTS GRADS | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

...Brig. Gen. Henry D. F. Munnikhuysen, director of the Personnel Division of the Quartermaster Corps, Colonel Wood, Lt. Col. George F. Conner, Commandant of the school, and Donald K. David, dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, will speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREGORY WILL ADDRESS 186 ASOTS GRADS | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

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