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...Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls; Novelist Walter Edmonds turned historian in They Fought with What They Had to tell the griefs of U.S. airmen in the first months of the Pacific war; and the submariners got some of their due in Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood's Sink 'Em All and Battle Submerged by Rear Admiral Harley Cope and Captain Walter Karig. For pure excitement, there was nothing better than the diary kept by a French fighter pilot in the British air force, Pierre Clostermann's The Big Show...
...Weiland, better than anyone, knows how much the Crimson lost via graduation and how badly it will be handicapped by a schedule which doesn't begin until Monday, and which offers only two--count 'em--games before the Christmas recess...
...Guadalcanal's few veterans was a chief boatswain's mate, with 15 years' experience. When Gallery asked him what he thought of the crew-80% of whom had never seen salt water before -the chief said: "Cap'n, I'd swap 'em all for a bucket of oily rags." But the kids (average age 21) learned fast. Gently but firmly, Gallery instilled in them a sense of duty, and of discipline. He taught them that every sailor carries the responsibility for other men's lives-even the captain of the head (who cleaned...
...some free time." After a Thanksgiving dinner in a jet pilots' mess, the Veep moved up to the front lines, where he autographed a 105-mm. howitzer shell, pulled the lanyard and celebrated his 74th birthday with the wish: "I hope I got some of 'em...
...almost singlehanded drives a wedge through the Siegfried Line, which appears to be an area no deeper than the width of Sunset Boulevard. Amid such juvenile heroics, only the tanks look real, and they expend ammunition with an abandon which should horrify U.S. taxpayers and delight the shoot-'em-up enthusiasts for whom this low-caliber movie was tooled...