Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Largest of all University service schools, the Navy Supply Corps School sent over 7,700 officers, trained in supply and disbursing, to duty with almost every echelon of the far-flung war-time United States fleet. In included a branch of Waves stationed at Radcliffe.
Bilingual Ladies. By the time UNO's delegates arrived, the college cafeteria was ready to feed the men of all nations at a reasonable price (lunch: 50?). A Miss de Vienne Blanc had recruited a secretarial staff, and had enthusiastically announced that many of the girls were bilingual and...
In February 1943 he arrived in North Africa. There he commanded the II Corps in the Seventh Army of George Patton. In that brutal and bloody campaign, U.S. troops learned how vastly different real war was from Tennessee maneuvers. Then the flamboyant George Patton overshadowed Bradley, but it was the...
Billy Kepner never liked school very much, so he ran away and joined the Marines at 16. Then he got in the Army, lost half his jaw and won a D.S.C. as a Third Division infantryman in World War I; joined the Air Corps after the war. In 1934 he...
Died. Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, 67, who as Hitler's first Minister of War began to build up the almost-all-conquering Wehrmacht; of a heart attack; in Nürnberg. In 1938, ostensibly because he married his "socially impossible" stenographer, ardent Nazi von Blomberg lost his job...