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...were sometimes ahead of schedule, all had quarters ready when they arrived. One outfit gave General Devers a rare laugh. The 112th Field Artillery (National Guard) arrived from New Jersey with twelve pianos, 36 polo ponies, its due complement of men and officers. Only items left behind were the regiment's guns. They arrived several days late...
Private Leland Earl joined the Washington National Guard two years ago. He wanted to know how the big guns worked. When his regiment (the 148th Field Artillery) was mobilized last fall, Private Earl was ordered to report in Seattle. But he was selling magazines in New Jersey, got his orders too late to join the regiment before it sailed for Hawaii. Because he was technically mobilized and liable to arrest, Private Earl prudently presented himself at Fort...
...guns and drums and wounds. His blood runs thick with soldiery: his first ancestor in Britain was a Deveauville who came over with William the Conqueror, and he is the third general in three generations of Wavells. His father was and his son is with the famed Black Watch Regiment. Even his three daughters are in military work, and one is nicknamed Trooper. He is a strong family man who loves the luxury of spare time in his big Cairo house hidden in jacaranda trees behind the third hole of the Gezirah golf course. Finally, he is a reader...
...appears that the newspaper publisher, a bulky, sinister, pince-nez-polishing fascist (Edward Arnold), has always intended to use the John Doe Clubs to get himself elected President and regiment the U. S. people into some sense. Doe learns this from the newspaper editor (James Gleason), a patriot who has got drunk with the horror of the idea. The notion of having the prime patriotic appeal of the picture delivered by a soused journalist (and ex-soldier) is a crowning piece of Capra-Riskin-Gleason virtuosity...
Splendidly ringed with red, white & blue stripes around the turret, The Old Man's tank roared past a regiment of truck-borne infantry; past 300 motorcyclists; past truck-towed, 37-mm. antitank guns (see cut); past the motor-drawn field artillery; finally veered toward the tank regiments. As he passed the 68th, The Old Man was a barely visible projection above the turret of his tank. His tank whirled, spat back to the reviewing stand. Company D relaxed...