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Candid Craft. The troop-carrying glider is a candid sort of aircraft, no secrets, nothing concealed. Canvas fabric covers the fuselage; in flight it vibrates like a drumhead. The whole craft is springy and alive as a new buggy. Pilot and copilot sit up in the blunt, transparent nose, a single row of instrument dials in front of them. The noise of rushing air is astonishing...
This happy line, from Sergeant Eddie Hartman's 1918 Variety notice of the Elsie Janis A.E.F. camp show, epitomizes the tone of troop entertainment in World War I. What it lacked in polish it more than made up in razzmatazz. Forthright, gangling, cartwheeling Elsie Janis was the greatest favorite of them all. Her persistent yawp "Are we downhearted?" was rarely if ever answered incorrectly. Greatest band-greater even than Sousa's -was Jim Europe's Negro aggregation which, at a bands-of-all-nations celebration in Paris, stopped the show with St. Louis Blues...
This sailing was unlike those that had gone before. Grey-uniformed Red Cross workers, long prohibited by security requirements from attending troop embarkations, now passed out doughnuts and coffee, candy and chewing gum. On the piers bands were playing-for the first time in World War II-and the troops broke into thankful grins...
Thus one of the biggest U.S. troop embarkations in a 24-hour period of the war began, on the evening of a certain secret date. It went on far into the night and early morning as ferryboats and trains brought thousands of battle-readied soldiers to board troop transports...
Assembling for Sailing. One assembly area has loaded a large troop train in four minutes, has sent out 15,000 troops in one day-and on schedule...