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There was little confusion, but some men did strange things. One officer swam about in a heavy steel helmet. After two men jumping from the ship had landed on his head, he threw his helmet off, swam about bareheaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE SEAS: Landsale's End | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...General Joe Stilwell which identified her as a Dead End Kid (because she went to the end of the line). In Burma and China, Pioneer Paulette rode many an extra jeep mile to get to plumbing, often brushed her teeth with canned grapefruit juice, washed her underwear in a helmet, herself in leftover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Troubled | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

Grim in his three-starred helmet, beribboned battle jacket, mirror-shined cavalry boots and butter-bean pants, "Old Blood & Guts" was photographed last week in England reviewing troops, and it was announced that he would command a U.S. ground army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Whatever his Faults | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

Spoils of War. In Los Angeles, the sheriff arrested a twelve-year-old boy for stealing a Garand rifle, cartridge belt, gas mask, helmet, motorcycle first-aid kit, field bag, a pair of binoculars, four bayo nets and scabbards, several pairs of trousers and several shirts from an Army camp. Said the boy: "I wanted to have some souvenirs to give to my grand children." Tyger, Tyger. In Los Angeles, Leo Winter was fined $500 for misapplication of ration points in spite of his explanation that he and his wife and his cat had eaten 495 Ib. of meat between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 3, 1944 | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Ronson cigaret lighter; one Waltham wrist watch; one U.S.-made nail clipper; a colored picture of a tiger (possibly picked up during the Malayan campaign); a helmet with hollow pads in which was secreted a girl's photograph; a mosquito headnet ful of rice. . . . One other item lying near by turned out to be a white silk shirt, made in Sydney. Don't ask me what a Nip would be doing with a white silk shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 31, 1944 | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

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