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...tempered Kelly Turner and hot-tempered Holland Smith get along fine -now. Says General Smith: "I like that guy. We fought. We argued like hell. We were nasty to each other. But when we came up from the mat we were friends." Why the Marines? Some theorists claim that marines are good fighters be cause they must always fight, war or peace. More than once Army officers have tried to abolish the Marine Corps -Douglas MacArthur as Chief of Staff had the last notable try. Many a West Pointer will still argue that the picked troops of the Marine Corps...
...each of the six weight classes on the mat, and seven in the ring, one bout will be staged. Army entrants are being chosen by inter-company competition, while Navy squads are working out on regular training schedules...
Ready Replacements. The vast supply function of the A.S.C. begins in the "accelerated service tests" of the Matériel Command. In these endurance runs of new planes, A.S.C. experts watch for parts which wear quickly, to be ready for replacement demands. By the time a new model (like the B29) is in the field, the parts it will need are ready to hand. In the Attu campaign, parts flown in by the Air Transport Command arrived before the planes for which they were ordered...
Collision mat: a pad the crew sleeps on after the ship has had an accident...
...sure that the Germans and Japs will be interested in seeing that our hospital ships carry war matériel...