Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ The Navy and Marine Corps be stripped of all but close-support and utility aircraft, thus giving to the Air Force the jobs of reconnaissance and antisubmarine patrol (which the Air Force says it can do, and the Navy says it can do better).
Truman's one concession to the Navy was to let it keep the Marine Corps big enough to "conduct such limited land operations as are essential to . . . a naval campaign."
When war came, he joined the Air Corps, played in Winged Victory, then toured the Pacific with the "Winged Pigeons," an eleven-man entertainment unit ("we played close to a million men and were never fired on once"). He also wrote a G.I. song hit, Why Do They Call a...
The heart of the measure was the authority to induct men between 18 and 45 whenever voluntary enlistments failed to provide the manpower for the postwar Army (1,070,000), Navy (558,000), and Marine Corps (108,000). If the House swung into line, the Army would be able to...
Smith, who bore his laurels proudly but modestly, enlisted in the Marine Corps during his Freshman year in March 1943, and took part in the battle of Guam as a member of a Corps Artillery outfit. He was discharged as a corporal on April 7 of this year. The registration...