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...Tokyo-born Henry Ebihara, 24, became the first to jump at a brand-new War Department ruling permitting alien Japanese to enlist in the U.S. Army. Ebihara, whose younger brothers & sisters are all citizens, was brought to the U.S. at the age of two. A Cleveland war-plant worker, he had asked both Franklin Roosevelt and War Secretary Stimson for a chance to fight. Said he: "My people are Americans, even though I was born in Japan and can't be a citizen because my skin is yellow. This war isn't one race against another...
...Across Canada 4,200 R.C.A.F. trainees were given their choice of transferring to the Army or going home to wait for a draft call. At Toronto's manning depot, only 126 out of 1,200 had volunteered. When an Army officer tried to persuade more of them to enlist, the airmen greeted him with shouts of "Why don't you call on the zombies?" From London came hints of more zombie trouble when Canada's turn comes to fight in the Pacific. Two of the Canadian Press's senior war correspondents - Ross Munro in Belgium...
...President Grumman shares it with a balding onetime professional basketball player named Leon A. ("Jake") Swirbul, 45, Grumman's executive vice president and production boss. Like Grumman, Jake Swirbul grew up in a small town (Sag Harbor, L.I. - pop. 2,517), also attended Cornell, but left to enlist in the Marines in World War I. Swirbul is big, hard-muscled and walks with the quick steps of a prizefighter. He is talkative, exact (Grumman is vague), with a passion for planning production to the last thousandth of an inch. These two temperamental opposites mesh into the smoothest team...
...Division: Major General Clarence R. Huebner, 55, who turned down a West Point appointment to enlist, rose from the ranks. He was a company cook at Fort Logan, Colo, in 1910, climbed to lieutenant colonel commanding an infantry battalion (in the ist Division) in World...
...from Wall Street. Jimmy Forrestal is a notable example of able businessman turned able public servant. Born a Dutchess County neighbor of Franklin Roosevelt, he went to Princeton, edited the Daily Princetonian, got his nose flattened in a friendly boxing match, was graduated in time to enlist in the Navy in World War I. He emerged a lieutenant...