Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For 97 days a Navy court-martial in Washington (five captains and two commanders) heard, in secret, the case against Lieut. Commander Edward Neal Little, 39-year-old Naval Academy graduate who won the Silver Star for gallantry during Corregidor's last days. Behind the case-a deep hatred...
Blonde, blue-eyed Mrs. Francis Miller from Philadelphia, whose husband was just demobbed from the King's Royal Rifle Corps, "kept looking at Queen Mary, because I think she's so cute." The American girls were surprised to find the Princesses so small. They were particularly impressed with...
Thoroughly relaxed, A.M.A.'s delegates gossiped, gamboled and, for a few days, found nothing much to argue about. But by convention's end, some solemn business demanded attention after all. One grim reminder was a pair of radioactive goats (survivors of Bikini) munching hay in the exhibition hall...
* An A.M.A. poll of Medical Corps veterans showed that during World War II both Army & Navy doctors spent only half of their time on medical work. The doctors concluded that the military could have got along with three-quarters as many doctors as they drafted.
In peacetime, alert soldiers are always busy trying to figure out what the next war will be like. In the June and July issues of the Marine Corps Gazette, Lieut. Colonel Keith McCutcheon tells marines about guided missiles, the weapons most military men believe will dominate World War III, if...