Word: khakies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answers to a few "must" letters. Sometimes this correspondence included a letter to wife, parents or other nearest kin of a U.S. soldier killed in action. So far in World War II, General Marshall has written such a letter to the family of every man who died in army khaki. Soon the dead will be too many, and he will have to forego his act of grace...
Global Army. George Marshall, democrat, would be the first to agree that the U.S. Army is not his army. He would be first to say that the U.S. Army, 1942, belongs to the "more than five million" men and officers now in khaki, to the two or three million more who will certainly be in uniform before World War II is much older; to the "more than 700,000" who are the vanguard of huge A.E.F.s...
...Wearing khaki uniforms dyed green, newly arrived crack Australian Imperial troops (including the famed "rats" who holed in for eight months at Tobruk) launched their little offensive last week. At mountain peak No. 3 (of the six between Port Moresby and the gap at the top of the range) they seeped through and outflanked the foremost Jap positions. But the Japs, softened by strafing and bombing raids, had already withdrawn...
Eighty-odd men shucked the blue-grey uniforms of Britain's R.A.F. last week and put on khaki. The Eagle Squadrons had ended their history with the R.A.F. They would fly henceforth wearing the wings of the U.S. Army Air Forces...
...world's loveliest sunrise is golden and purple and leaden. As soon as light appears ("back over there where home is") a faint flush of warmth pushes back the cool of night. By eight o'clock it is hot and sticky. Standard dress is a pair of khaki shorts, nothing more. The soldiers, sailors and marines are all brown as leather. Men who are not manning guns usually finish their work of building, rebuilding, camouflaging and drilling two or three hours before dark, so there is time for a baseball game or a swim (being careful...