Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John got a $5,000 war bond, and went off on a Treasury-conducted war bond tour. Marine officers who accompanied him found that Sergeant Basilone was still steady, modest about his honors, anxious to get back to his outfit...
When the first waves of marines went ashore on Iwo Jima, Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone was there, commanding an assault team of the 27th Regiment, 5th Division. By noon Medal-of-Honorman Basilone had his outfit on the edge of Motoyama airfield. There he met the shell that had his number on it. By nightfall John Basilone, a good marine, was dead...
...week to shove off on another one of her frequent speaking and inspection trips to Navy bases. This one would take her to the Ninth Naval District, in the Midwest. Navymen, who like people who get down to earth, looked forward to her coming. As far as her own outfit was concerned, Miss Mac expected to find very little out of the way. There had never been any serious troubles among the women of the U.S. Naval Reserves. Now that they had shaken down into their various assignments, Miss Mac's tours were little more than routine checkups...
...entertainer who is creating such a multilingual stir, Sergeant Desmond is modesty itself. When he sang for the 101st Airborne Division, his appreciative audience presented him with a complete paratrooper's outfit and honorary membership in the division. Johnny is especially pleased about the G.I. reaction: "I used to be afraid the real soldiers wouldn't like me," he says, "but they don't seem to mind me being a swooner." The band's publicity-minded program director, Warrant Officer Paul Dudley, says with boding triumph: "Sinatra is apt to push; The Creamer just bides...
Incidentally, Shuttleworth is one of the two men in the Wingate outfit who wear monocles. He is a master at monocle manipulation. During a hazardous plane ride at treetop altitude and a subsequent bottle of Scotch whiskey in celebration of our safe return, the monocle remained clear-eyed and steady and was never once removed. To me this was a clear demonstration of steel nerves...