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...imagination skimming about the North Atlantic, Bob Reynolds had another brain wave: "And if possible, we should make some agreement of a friendly nature to get a portion of ... Greenland and Iceland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Brotherly Greed | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...time the shifts were made. Combat men have long griped about burly soldiers smashing baggage in Iceland, tending bar in PXs in Brisbane, have resented being equipped by healthy young quartermasters who had never heard a shot fired in anger. Plenty of the "rear-echelon commandos" resented their own lot, too, were ready for a chance at battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: The Army Raids Its Desks | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

Joseph Barnes, world traveling foreign news editor of the New York Herald Tribune, just in by bomber from England, reported that he had to stand all the way from Iceland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 7, 1944 | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...Britain, where women are a common sight, eleven male stars (Cinemactors Hope, Crosby, Tracy, Cagney, Gable, Bogart, Abbott & Costello, Rooney, Grant, Kaye) are as popular as any female. In Iceland, oddly enough, five males vie with Miss Grable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G.l.s and Movies | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

Hoots for Tantrums. Among war films only the Army's Why We Fight series and Screen Magazine are generally liked. But Destination, Tokyo has earned a certain respect, and A Guy Named Joe is well thought of in India. In Iceland, Hollywood's self-congratulatory Four Jills in a Jeep (TIME, April 3) ended abruptly when a crowd of G.l.s walked out on it. In Alaska, where Olivia De Havilland is normally very popular with G.l.s, they fiercely hooted her flag-waving tantrums at the end of Government Girl. Everywhere, G.l.s scan war films for technical errors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G.l.s and Movies | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

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