Word: regimentations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torrential as its talent and may give civilians as well as servicemen a drowning sensation (examples in song: Marching Through Berlin; The Machine-Gun Song). But Stage Door Canteen is not only a big show with something for almost everybody, but also a potentially fine period piece recording a regiment of wartime show people and their uniformed audience...
...forthright aversion to walking drove Harris into the air. He was 22, spending a happy interlude on a family friend's tobacco farm in Southern Rhodesia, when World War I broke out. Arthur Harris enlisted in the First Rhodesian Regiment of Infantry, served first as a bugler, and (as he later told it) walked across Africa to fight the Germans. Swearing that he would never walk again if any other form of locomotion was available, he went back to England and joined the R.A.F.'s predecessor, the Royal Flying Corps, in 1915. He won the Air Force Cross...
Loading for Battlefronts. Convoys leaving the U.S. during the early months after Pearl Harbor were apt to be tangled affairs. Troops boarded transports, then chafed at the wharfside many days. One engineer regiment carried to Australia trucks which had already been driven 30,000 miles. In World War I the confusion was worse. Men who had never fired a rifle were rushed overseas...
...embarkation is a finely timed, streamlined operation. Nowadays, when the high command decides to send a regiment, division, squadron or other unit overseas, the outfit's commanding officer is "alerted." Then a movement order directs the outfit to be prepared to depart on a specified date...
...French professionals, returned to action and glory in Tunisia, had seen no finer staff officer than Major General Walter B. Smith (right), Eisenhower's chief of staff. Their recognition: induction in the famed 2nd Spahis as an honorary first class private. General de Goutel laid the colonial cavalry regiment's scarlet burnous on "Beedle" Smith's shoulders, pinned the outfit's medal badge on his O.D. blouse...