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...manual is Captain Roy L. Atteberry, a former enlisted man from Dallas, who got an appointment to West Point, was graduated in 1941. Captain Atteberry remembered all he had learned in his year in Alaska, carefully analyzed all the reports of what went wrong in Attu, then wrote his handbook. Some conclusions: Warriors' Habits. "For some reason it seems that mud and water and war always go together, so since the days of the Axe, stone, M I, the doughfoot has always had a rough time with his wet feet...
...publicity man's dream background for the war's latest good-will publication, an eight-cent booklet, Meet the U.S. Army, issued by His Majesty's Stationery Office. Roughly paralleling the U.S. Army's Short Guide to Great Britain in purpose, this handbook on American character was written by pale, pensive Louis MacNeice, 35-year-old Anglo-Irish poet, author of Plant and Phantom, Autumn Journal, etc. Since the war MacNeice has bloomed as a top-notch BBC script writer. He acquired American background in 1939 and 1940, when he traveled widely in the U.S., lecturing...
Whether by chance or design, many of the U.S. troops who barged into Sicily could speak Italian. For the benefit of those who could not, the Army was ready with a neat paper handbook and guide to the language, not designed to offer a complete course in Italian, but to enable any soldier to ask ordinary questions, order a meal (and pay for it), read street and highway signs, ask directions...
Missing from the U.S. book is anything resembling the grim phrases included by the ever-efficient Germans in the language guides prepared for their troops during the overrunning of Europe. Example from the German handbook prepared for a possible invasion of England: "Tell the truth or you will be killed...
...Handbook is the thinnest in years. A record number of private schools have closed, because of government lease or purchase, loss of teachers,† students or income, difficulties with food, materials or labor. Many schools have put students to waiting on table, making beds, and cleaning rooms" (as boys at Kent and certain other schools have always done). Especially in New England, students are raising their own farm products. Some schools are lending pupils to nearby farmers (examples: St. Mark's, Hotchkiss...