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Word: regimentations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing that shocked him (and Des Moines too) was that henna-haired, sexy Amber D'Georg, the Casino's stripteaser, billed as "direct from Hollywood," was really direct from Fort Des Moines. Her billing there: Auxiliary Kathryn Doris Gregory, 15th Company, 3rd Regiment, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Her home: Fort Worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: WAAC AWOL | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

Napoleon Edward Taylor worked in a Baltimore packing house until he was inducted into a Maryland Negro regiment. In a year or so he was off on a troopship. On June 17, months before the invasion of Morocco and Algeria, Private Taylor and an unrevealed number of his fellow soldiers found themselves off the coast of Africa. They were there to make a peaceful and secret invasion of the Negro republic of Liberia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Landing of Napoleon | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

Snafu is when the supply ship arrives and the stuff on the bottom should have been on top. Snafu is when radio receiving sets arrive at a jungle camp without batteries. Snafu is when a regiment unloads its trucks overseas and finds most of them so worn that they are ready to fall apart. Snafu is when the yellow-fever vaccine gives everybody jaundice; when the planes cannot fly because spare parts ordered four months ago never show up; when headquarters orders red crosses painted on the hospital just after it has been meticulously camouflaged. Snafu is when a Seattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Superlative for Snafu | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...which the Mil Sci Department has adopted, this group, selected from 90 second year applicants, will have more opportunity for leadership training than any previous class of field artillery cadet officers. This extra experience in commanding men will result from the fact that the present officer personnel of the regiment, including all of the present Mil Sci 3 and 4 men, will graduate in June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Advances 75 Mil Sci 2 Men | 11/14/1942 | See Source »

...result, the newly selected advanced course cadets will function as sergeants only during the first semester of their third year, and will assume command of the regiment as commissioned cadet officers in the second half of the third year, giving them three semesters in which to bark commands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Advances 75 Mil Sci 2 Men | 11/14/1942 | See Source »

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