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...visit was an eloquent demonstration of a fact which the War Manpower Commission is just now learning the hard way: men & women do not respond according to the slide rule. The Duke saw pleasant surroundings: red frame houses, a neat canvas mess tent, a medical clinic, shower baths, even a jukebox. ("What's that?" demanded Windsor, "a stove...
Lore. In New Guinea, Sergeant Jack Percy of Los Angeles saw an officer in the next tent drinking out of a canteen marked "JP-USA-AEF," identified it as the one he used in France...
...heavy by day and at night lying there waiting to know if his number was coming up. To Corporal Isaac Lorenzo Moroni Parker it was the sonofabitching Kasserine Pass. To Private First Class Michael Scotto di Clementi it was digging a slit trench beside the colonel's tent in an oasis and wondering if anybody remembered Micky Scott of Our Gang comedies. To Major General Terry Allen it was a satisfying pride in his 1st Division and an occasional chance to talk polo with a British major over a cup of tea. To many another soldier...
...German staff officer, wearing the Iron Cross around his neck, stepped to the tent of a U.S. general at 9:50 a.m. on Sunday, May 9, 1943 near Bizerte and said: "What are your terms for surrender...
...cloud-hung volcanic wastes that are the Aleutians, U.S. forces live as they never dreamed men could-like moles in quarters buried in the ground except for metal or tent roofs. "Not nice," they say, "but safe...