Word: commandos
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Appearances tot he contrary notwithstanding, the Supply Corps School is not being transformed into a commando training center. One might think so, however, if he had chanced to observe the past several drill sessions on the soccer field. Platoons of men were sent marching through bushes, up hills, and halfway up fences . . . rugged conditioning, indeed, but actually nothing more nor less than the junior students getting their first crack at being drillmasters...
Many of these first-person reports have been given by plain people-like the women war workers who told you about their jobs at the arsenal proving grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland-or the Englishman just back from a Commando raid who told you the epic story of the battle of St.-Nazaire-or the U.S. bombardier in London who told you how it feels to bomb Germany...
...Egypt as a press-relations officer, young Randolph won the respect of correspondents writhing under stupid Egyptian and British censorship. In 1942 he joined up as a commando, was injured last May in an auto accident. Invalided home, young Churchill took the long route, via the U.S. Here he visited politicians in Washington, production men in Detroit and nightclubs in New York...
...wave radio one night last week cooed the snide voice of a Nazi announcer, straining to be funny. "A woman correspondent, Mary Allen," he said, "has fallen into Italo-German hands. . . . She was the only representative of the Anglo-American press to attend such an unladylike affair [the British commando raid on Tobruk]. . . . Some of the correspondents who took part in the Dieppe landing returned . . . well tutored. . . . This time they sent a woman to Tobruk. As you can see, it's hardly courteous, but very American...
...illusory heart ailment, a raffish son (Richard Ney), a musical-comedy daughter (Jean Rogers) and. though the epithet is never directly hurled, there is more than a hint that the Widow Bainter is a Republican. The war against her is waged with practically everything but brass knuckles and a commando raid. It proceeds by a series of psychological crises. Some of them...