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...planes dropped bombs new to the Chinese: 50-lb. incendiaries which spattered phosphorus. Soldiers burned to death where they fought. Others stripped off their flaming khaki and fought naked, with wounds and burns open to the angry Burmese...
...stepped aboard a boat. With him were slim, brunette Jean Faircloth MacArthur; their son, Arthur, clothed in the dignity of his four years, a blue zipper jacket, khaki trousers and a khaki forage cap; the boy's hovering Chinese nurse, Ah Ju, who among other things had taught him to speak with an English accent. With them, on this and a second boat, were some of the staff officers who were to accompany General MacArthur to Australia. In a hidden inlet on Bataan, behind the U.S. lines, Major General Hugh Casey of the Engineers led the rest...
...warming a crisp morning when General MacArthur's train approached Melbourne. Australians had just got the news from their late morning papers, and 4,000 had gathered to greet him outside the station's high, iron fence. They saw assorted generals in standard khaki and medals, an admiral or two in white and gold, a U.S. Army battalion drawn up as guard of honor. They saw seven white-legginged, strangely brown soldiers in a special detail: Filipinos from Field Marshal MacArthur's Commonwealth Army, wounded in the early days of the fighting and evacuated to Australia...
...plain, washed-khaki jacket. The jacket was open at the neck. It was bare of stars (he could have worn four). It matched his plain, khaki trousers. The only gold was on his garrison cap. But the trousers were rigorously pressed. A bamboo swagger stick swung in his right hand. The jacket, trousers, cap and stick, for that place and that day, were the perfect dress. They were in the MacArthur tradition. Among the dressier uniforms of the generals around him, they made him as conspicuous as had the Russian boots, the resplendent tunics, the stars and the medals which...
...signed up in the Third Registration. Early numbers will mean a call to arms some time in June. Meanwhile the Army will pick & choose from among the 17,500,000 registrants of 1940-41. Last week many a registrant, teetering uneasily between mufti and khaki, was confused about the future...