Word: helmeted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour watches for amateur air spotters. The Office of Civilian Defense had been without a boss since James M. Landis went off to boss U.S. economics in the Middle East (TIME Aug. 16). Many an air-raid warden was beginning to lose that first fine passion for his helmet and whistle. But OCD, with a $4 million budget and 850 employes, urged every man to keep on his toes. There might still be need, said OCD, for all the equipment it had delivered or requisitioned: 4,419,450 arm bands, 2,700,000 helmets, 5,000,000 gas masks...
...Immediate Job. It was a busy and critical week for Mark Clark and the Fifth. He called his sallies to the front "ringside" visits. His men, getting used to the lanky figure in paratrooper boots, gold-braided overseas cap or three-starred helmet, called him "the front-line general...
...football helmet with radio receiver, presumably to facilitate communications from the coach...
...daily bowel movement is important. . . . Carry one pad of toilet paper in your helmet where it is handy and will keep dry. Use it sparingly...
Before it, kneeling on the ground with his helmet and rifle by his side, an American soldier was silently praying...