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Happy as the Grass Was Green. Connolly admits that he has put in only the poetry that pleases him. It ranges from Randall JarrelPs brief, corrosive The Death of the Ball-Turret Gunner to e. e. cummings' lighthearted, lightheaded mike likes all the girls
...pictures Capa liked best were those that told the "whole story," like his photo of an American machine gunner the instant he was killed, or his pictures of half-drowned G.I.s crawling through the heavy surf toward the Normandy beaches. Photographer Capa was no master technician; under battle conditions his lighting and his focus were often faulty. He got his best pictures by knowing and understanding war, and by staying close to it. "If your pictures aren't good," he was fond of saying, "you aren't close enough." The late Brigadier General Teddy Roosevelt once said...
...McCarthy's claim of entering the Marine Corps as a "buck private," because he entered as a commissioned officer; that he (Mr. McCarthy) resigned from the Marine Corps months before his comrades in arms, and the war with Japan; further, that he claimed to be a "tail gunner," when he was only a ground intelligence officer...
SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD Dallas ¶ McCarthy signed up with the Marines as a private in January 1942, with orders to report to Quantico for officer training, was commissioned three months later. In the Pacific he was an air intelligence officer and often flew missions in the rear gunner's seat. In March 1945 he applied for and got his discharge from the Marine Corps. Neither the Marine Corps nor McCarthy has officially answered the V.F.W.'s statements...
...service record includes resigning from the service before the war with Japan was over at a time when his Marine Corps comrades faced months of bloody fighting in the Pacific; false claims about alleged wounds which in fact he did not suffer; claims that he was a 'tail gunner' when in fact he was a Marine Air Force ground intelligence officer; false claims that he entered service as a 'buck private' when in fact he entered as a commissioned officer; efforts to promote decorations for himself...