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Along busy Central Avenue, on the outskirts of Memphis, Tenn., rolled 80 trucks of the 110th Quartermaster Regiment, making slow progress through Sunday traffic. In the cabs and on the hard seats behind sat 350 soldiers, ties discarded, collars open under a blistering sun. After the manner of the U.S. soldier, Model 1941, or the Roman soldier, B.C. 100, they were also making merry by waving at girls, shouting boisterous pleasantries at civilians. They had a right to be cheerful, they had just finished more than a month's hard work in the Second Army maneuvers in central Tennessee...
...Polly Ray Mountain at Fort Bragg, N.C., 18,000 troops of the Ninth Division moved for maneuvers. Everything was set for a nice little black & white wargame. Infantrymen and artillerymen were to attack the hill. The defenders were Lieut. Colonel John Elliott Wood's 41st Engineers, the first regiment of Negro engineers in the new Army...
White, North Carolina-born Joe Wood was a major at the War College in Washington when the Corps of Engineers decided to establish a Negro regiment last summer. All of his officers are white; all of them are 30 or younger. (In the U.S. Army, Negro regiments get picked officers, and officers generally vie for assignment to them.) His 1,250 privates and noncoms are Negroes, mostly from the South. Together they have made the 41st a slambang outfit which has supplied the training cadres for 14 other engineer regiments. In all, some 3,300 Negro recruits have gone through...
...cadet life is stricter and discipline more sternly professional. At Jax, military formalities are reduced to a minimum, and habits are more casual, friendlier. The thermostat for this temperature is Lieut. Commander Roger Cutler, a tall, ruddy Bostonian, who left the textile business to take command of the Cadet Regiment. Known out of his earshot as Rodge, Cutler goes at his duties with the directness of a businessman, impatiently waves aside red tape as he tries to get his boys another swimming pool twice as big as the present one, or electric fans for their rooms or better chow...
...time in World War I. In Spain the Naziphile Falange began recruiting "volunteers" (while Generalissimo Francisco Franco promised Great Britain to punish Falangist hoodlums who attacked the British Embassy). Denmark broke off diplomatic relations with Russia, closed its only Communist paper, rounded up Reds. German propaganda announced that the Regiment Nordland, composed of Danish and Norwegian Nazis, was fighting on the Finnish Front. There was also a Regiment Westland, made up of Dutch and Belgian Nazis, in Finland, said the Nazis. Vichy broke off relations with Russia. Sweden granted Germany the right to transport troops from Norway to Finland...