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...whose upended feet were dusty with the sands of France. Medical Corpsmen moved among them, looking at their wound tags. Some of the wounded were smoking. *A homesick U.S. soldier said wryly: "Is that really England? I never thought I wanted to see the goddam country again but now it looks like heaven." Some of the men had their eyes closed. Over the faces of some, blankets had been drawn. As the wounded and the dead came back, other soldiers, with flowers stuck in the camouflage netting of their tin hats, marched past them through the streets of the English...
...while, scooped a hole three feet deep. The marines, not even covered by a blanket, were laid in the hole. The bulldozer pushed some more dirt over them and that was all there was to it (until burial parties got around later to a formal funeral). Lines of medical corpsmen were bringing the bodies in as fast as they could find stretchers and wade into the shallow water...
From Tunisia, fortnight ago, came five striking newspictures. U.S. publishers played them big. One was particularly eye-catching: a photo of a U.S. patrol advancing across a Tunisian plain while in the foreground Medical Corpsmen fixed up a wounded trooper. TIME and the news papers, rushing to press, played the picture straight. The New York Daily News gave it a ten-column, double-truck display, called it "a great battle picture"; so did Editor & Publisher, publication trade weekly. LIFE, pondering the picture, had grave qualms, finally printed it double-spread, but with a skeptical caption: ". . . In spite of the apparent...
Correspondent Jacoby reported that hospital corpsmen continually drove their ambulances through fire, evacuating wounded. He named as outstanding examples Captain Ralph L. Rowland of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Technical Sergeant Frederick W. Guth of Whitmore, Calif.; Corporal Ernest W. Crunkleton of Everton, Ark. Last week the ambulance of Driver Calvin E. Latham of Woodland. Calif, was pocked by 24 machine-gun bullets, one of which had tattered the leg of his slacks...
...cooled power plants of half the Napier Sabre's power. For General Motors' Allisons the Army has laid out $159,500,000, and it has contracted for $62,448,000 of Rolls-Royce Merlins to be built by Packard. While waiting for General Arnold to report, Air Corpsmen could find comfort in another fact: whatever was done about liquid-cooled engine buying, it would soon be getting a lot more power in a new batch of pursuit planes. Last week Republic Aircraft Corp. put the finishing flicks to its new P-47, powered with...