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...Hawaiian Air Force Commander, Brigadier General Clarence L. Tinker, 54, a spit-&-polish, sky-ripping flight officer, part Osage Indian (Oklahoma), flyer since 1920, chief of Third Interceptor Command...
Topeka: One thing the Kansas press hasn't said and the people are saying is: "What the hell was the Navy doing out there?" Kansans can get over the unpleasant fact that we were given a good pasting, but they want to hit back. The Chew & Spit Club, which assembles daily on the sunny side of Topeka's Sixth and Kansas Avenues, wants to know when we will....The people are calm but determined....A bit of a fifth-column scare, bridges, railroads, public utilities, radio stations guarded....Enlistments up several hundred percent. Outwardly, everything is calm...
...violent and militant speech. Japanese troop transports, supposedly 70 strong, were supposedly still pouring fresh Japanese divisions into French Indo-China, for a possible thrust into Thailand and at the Burma Road, last artery of aid to China (see p. 27). But the Dutch were mobilized to the spit-&-polish point in Batavia; not only Singapore but all of the Straits Settlements were in a state of emergency; at Hong Kong every British soldier was at war post; U.S. Marines arrived at Olongapo near Manila; the British had heavily reinforced Rangoon with British and Indian troops of all arms...
...family, looked with dismay on isolated instances of Army democracy: officers drinking off-duty with enlisted soldiers, officers soft and indecisive in their enforcement of quick, football-field obedience. There was no question about it: the U.S. Army, model 1941, had plenty of steam, but it lacked snap, dash, spit & polish...
Their training in the school imparted, in big doses, what many civilians think the Army lacks: snap. They were drilled in the spit-&-polish tradition that is the hallmark of all good outfits. They got demerits for not placing their shoes properly under their beds, for sloppy appearance, for languid carriage. More important, they got an intensive course in weapons, from the Garand rifle to the machine gun and the mortar. They took turns commanding their own companies...