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...General Stilwell in Chungking to keep the American flyers in China in touch with the world outside. Other copies are being flown to Assam for our flyers on the Burma front. In Liberia, in Sierra Leone, in French Equatorial Africa, in Egypt, in Iraq, in Iceland, in Greenland and in Alaska it is the same story...
...demand for some such service began the day the first American soldiers landed in dreary Iceland. It grew and spread all over the world as more and more American boys were sent overseas. The Army found that news from home was second only to food and cigarets in importance- and hundreds of letters told us how starved the men were for news, how the copies we succeeded in getting through to them were shared sometimes by as many as 400 men, how copies were torn apart so that several soldiers could read pieces of them at the same time...
With electron tubes any combat unit, even a plane streaking across the night sky above the clouds, is in close touch with its command post. Army headquarters in Australia, Iceland, Tunisia, China are neighboring plugs on a single electronic switchboard...
...outside of the U.S., and many are on the other side of the international date line. They will eat in at least 65 different countries or islands. For many there will be no turkey, no snow, no bells (see p. 38). For others in Alaska, in Greenland, in Iceland, there may be turkey and even bells, and there certainly will be snow. It will be a Christmas unique in the Army's history, for on no other Christmas have so many men in U.S. uniforms been scattered so far over the earth...
...victory over brass-hat morale builders who had wanted him to be a tidily uniformed entertainer. But to the soldiers, sailors and airmen who, since November 1939, have listened in weekly to an Empire broadcast titled Hi, Gang!, the U.S.A.A.F.'s gain was a loss felt from Iceland to New Guinea. For unnumbered U.S. servicemen have also been eager tuners-in to the show which Ben Lyon, his wife Bebe Daniels, and Vic Oliver have put on the air from London...