Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colorado's Democrats last week put forth their idea of what the well-dressed 1944 candidate will wear. Their choice was a bemedaled uniform occupied by a wounded young Air Force Major, Carl Eugen ("Kayo") Wuertele, 30. Major Wuertele (pronounced Wurtell) was at Pearl Harbor when the Japs came over. In 205 combat missions since, he collected five wounds and seven decorations, including the Distinguished Flying Cross. His Flying Fortress, Hel-en-Wings (for his wife, Helen) fought over Midway and Bougainville. In the Solomons, he shot down four Jap planes, had his own left foot nearly shot...
...find this to be true among men with whom I served overseas. . . . Many servicemen feel women in uniform waste too much time with military training, travel...
Your story (TIME, Dec. 27) concerning failure of American women to rush into WAC uniform states "Soldiers who have been in action want their women to join...
Luckily, he was used to quick sartorial changes. So when elegant Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., 47, last week stepped out of his five ambassadorships, one ministership and into a lieutenant colonel's uniform, he did it with neatness and dispatch. In his new job, his business will be U.S. relations with occupied European nations (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg). But his boss will be General Eisenhower instead of Cordell Hull...
...last Christmas, grey-haired, comfortable Mrs. Emma Van Coutren of New York City boasted eleven children in uniform: three WAGs, six bluejackets, one soldier and one merchant seaman. On Christmas Day, Child No. 12, young James, joined the Marines. Last week, after writing her usual dozen letters to her far-flung family, Mrs. Van Coutren made it a baker's dozen with a business like report to Franklin Roosevelt: "I am sorry to inform you, Mr. President, that the source of supply is now exhausted. . . .Selective Service will have to look elsewhere...