Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Story. Wholly nonpolitical, Children of Yesterday is a history of the 24th Division's Philippine campaign. Other fighting units, among them the 103rd and 84th Divisions, have already been celebrated in combat histories, and doubtless in time every U.S. outfit which saw action in World War II will have a published record of some sort. Some will be of the illustrated souvenir-program type, complete with a frontispiece of the Old Man and his ribbons. Others will tell an earnest, factual, down-to-earth G.I. story-which is what Children of Yesterday sets...
Eight Balls. Dr. Claude Uhler of Dallas spent most of the war attached to an outfit of "eight balls," chronic misfits who had sifted down to the unexacting job of guard at a P.W. camp in the U.S. Thirty percent of them should have been discharged as unfit for any kind of duty, wrote Uhler in the A.M.A. Journal. They were kept in service by the Army's evasive psychiatric procedures by which a precise diagnosis was avoided in favor of mere description and paraphrase. Results: "More than one-half million misfits carried along for an indefinite period...
...lived up to their motto, "Go for Broke":*no less than 650 of the Purple Hearts had to be sent to next of kin (many of them in relocation centers) because the soldiers were dead. The 442nd also set an unbeatable mark for soldierly behavior; no man in the outfit had ever deserted...
...main attractions of the ROTC, which has always helped to swell the ranks since the College unit was founded shortly after the first World War, has fallen victim to progress in the art of war. "In the 'piping days of peace' the unit was a horse drawn outfit which had a polo team; but, because the horse has ceased to be important or used in war, the team no longer exists. Thus, many 'little soldiers' no longer sign up," said McClure. But he emphasized that the unit will attempt to develop esprit de corps by many other social functions...
Soon Pressed Steel hired Murphy away from the purchasing commission, made him a vice president in charge of tank production. He worked 17 hours a day seven days a week, often slept in his office, bragged: "This outfit eats production schedules for breakfast...