Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After an Ohio boyhood (his father was an ironworker in Columbus) LeMay went to Ohio State University, was near to graduating when he quit to be a flying cadet in the Army. In due course he became a fighter pilot (later as an Army officer he went back to Ohio...
The first U.S. Army chaplain, appointed under an act of Congress in 1791, was General Washington's good friend the Rev. John Hurt of Virginia, "a fearless man and an ardent patriot." By an act of the Continental Congress in 1775, to which the Army Chaplains' Corps now...
Last week Patriot Hurt's lineal descendant, Brigadier General Luther Deck Miller, Army Chief of Chaplains, took the occasion of the 170th anniversary of the Chaplains' Corps to report these facts & figures about men of the cloth in World War II:
In addition to having served overseas, men in the first group are not only college graduates, but had several years of business experience before enlisting in the Navy. Following enlistment and prior to overseas assignment, they completed a four-month course in the Navy Supply Corps School, which is located...
We note that the Army has relaxed its non-fraternization rule in Germany but still sternly adheres to it in Cowie Hall. It's not possible, is it, that eating with Supply Corps personnel could be adjudged "intercourse with the enemy," the United States being in a state of war...