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...learning the hard way. Battle laurels of Japan's crack Fifth Division go back to the Russo-Japanese War. Once mummy-faced Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki himself commanded it. It had smacked the Chinese at the battle of Nankow Pass in 1937, sacked Taiyiian, fought at Süchow. It had spearheaded the spectacular Japanese drive on Nanning...
...this course is finished it is expected that you will know something about what a sailor does on a ship; how a big warship is operated; how an air task force is formed, and what it is expected to do; how the Army Commander spends his day; how your chow gets to you (or maybe why it doesn't sometimes); how German units work; the way you distinguish between truth, propaganda and pure, unadulterated BUNK...
Last week theaters were open until ten, packing their houses with Chu Chin Chow,* Hello, America, Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, the Russian opera and ballet-altogether ten musical shows, six plays. Patrons could go home to clean, comfortable shelters or into tubes accom modating 20 millions. Cabbies were thankful for a sixpence. Hotel lounges brightened at the reappearance of formal gowns, mink and ermine wraps. The Queen and Princesses Christmas-shopped at Fortnum & Mason's. The emu was content...
...Regiment. Known out of his earshot as Rodge, Cutler goes at his duties with the directness of a businessman, impatiently waves aside red tape as he tries to get his boys another swimming pool twice as big as the present one, or electric fans for their rooms or better chow for their mess or a fleet of boats to sail on the adjacent St. Johns River. Cutler's executive, tall, twangy Lieut. John Richard Yoho, a young Annapolis-and-Pensacola-trained officer of the regular Navy, who understands the circuitous ways of bureaucracy, tempers these impetuosities...
...done pretty well-90% of them had qualified on the pistol and automatic rifle ranges, 75% with the Springfield. Betweentimes, swathed in coveralls, they had hiked, practiced open-order fighting, strung barbed wire. In the late afternoons, after 45 minutes of football, baseball or boxing, they had gone to chow, sometimes back to school again in classrooms where officers and noncoms threw theory at them in great gobs, had put them through weekly examinations. In classroom they had been confronted with the placarded great sayings of soldiers (Napoleon: It is an axiom of military science that the army which remains...