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...Maybe he sells cigarets-back in Omaha. But he goes over like a lead balloon with the boys who have SEEN Guada, Buna and the north Tunisian coast. And a lot of guys who have been wearing the same socks for a month could cheerfully throttle the copywriters who created...
...Allied forces, too, had fought far better than in the Tunisian campaign, had reached a new peak of efficiency in their cooperation. The U.S. forces in particular showed, at Troina, at Randazzo and in their amphibious flanking movements on the northern coast, that they could take the best the Germans had to offer in the worst terrain they had yet seen, terrain in which their advantage in numbers hardly counted because large forces could not be brought into action...
Patton's colleagues smiled at such stories, believed some of them. But in the early months of the Tunisian fighting, in the later months when he was shaping the Seventh Army, a more balanced impression of General Patton had got about. "Gorgeous George," "Old Blood & Guts," who had once cultivated the spectacular impression, was also a patient and careful and studious man, a field officer with a good staff mind...
Your issue of TIME, April 5, reached this outfit just at the close of the Tunisian campaign. In reading each and every line from cover to cover, as all of us do, I came across "Cartoonist Soldier." . . . Dave Breger, principally through Yank, has contributed no little to the raising of spirits among troops in this theater by his excellent cartoons...
...draft ; 2) new opportunities for young, fit women in the uniformed services or well-paid defense jobs; 3) lack of domestic help, which forces other women to spend more time at home; 4) apathy; 5) optimism. New Orleans' recruiting dropped off one-fourth in May, after the Tunisian victory. And in many a U.S. city discouraged CDVO leaders wondered whether anything short of an enemy bombing could put civilian defense back on its feet...