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...bright September Sunday of 1943, John Basilone got his welcome home. At the estate of Doris Duke Cromwell, 30,000 assembled to greet Hero John-mayors, judges, ex-Governors and ex-Senators, and a movie star with upswept hairdo, who kissed John Basilone on the mouth. His picture stood in all the shop windows, alongside General MacArthur's. A portrait of John Basilone was hung in Town Hall...
...troops, beginning a new push against Germany, were more than anxious to greet their Russian comrades. Stars & Stripes printed its first Russian lesson; signs of "WELCOME IVAN" blossomed in the Western Front's rubble. Into a U.S. battalion headquarters walked a deadpan U.S. sergeant, costumed as a Russian, who gestured at a map of Germany and said: "We have captured all this. Now, comrades, we need rest, beds...
...sequel to your anecdote under "Morale" (TIME, Dec. 25), concerning the marines who taught the Jap prisoner to ask "Where I stand on rotation plan?" ... An Air Force captain told me that he and his fellow prisoners of Ploesti taught their non-English-comprehending Rumanian guards to greet them with: "Buy U.S. War Bonds...
...Hurley sent ahead no advance notices. As his transport circled Yenan's airport, the hinterland city of 40,000 went into a dither. First to greet the visitor was U.S. Army Observer Colonel David Dean Barrett, an old China hand, who was dressed in a faded, padded blue-cotton greatcoat over his woolen olive drab. General Hurley wore correct two-star uniform, complete with three rows of campaign ribbons, Mexican Aztec Eagle, White Eagle of Yugoslavia, D.S.C. (for gallantry in World War I) and U.S. Distinguished Service Medal with oakleaf cluster. Cracked the Colonel: "General, you have...
...Yenan. A rush phone call had summoned Yenan's Big Four-Communist Party Secretary Mao Tse-tung, Generals Chou Enlai, Chu Teh and Yeh Chien-ying. They sped to the airport in Mao's private car (a converted ambulance), ran pell-mell across the field to greet their American guest. As he had with the Russians in 1942, 1943 and 1944, Pat Hurley hailed them like long-lost friends...