Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Navy's other witness, General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, U.S.M.C., had his own argument: what would become of the Marine Corps and its esprit de corps under the merger? The Army had answered that in advance; it would go on operating as it always had, under the Navy and...
The blind may soon have an electrical gadget to help them get around without bumping into obstacles. The basic idea, now being worked on by the Army Signal Corps, is a small box shooting out a narrow beam of light. By turning the beam from side to side, the blind...
At present, the "optical cane" is heavy (9 lbs.) and cannot "see" narrow obstacles such as hanging wires. The Signal Corps intends to iron out all such comparatively minor faults before offering its invention to the blind.
¶ Although the Joint Chiefs setup still exists, Congress is now working to fix the postwar strength of the Navy and the Marine Corps, and "the War Department has been neither consulted nor informed."
The pride-bound U.S. Marine Corps dove into its statistical records last week, came up with the announcement that nearly 90% of its 589,852 officers and men had served overseas in World War II. Marine officers, who had long sung "We are proud to claim the title of United...