Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amazed, I asked for an explanation, and then he (Mr. Carl Iman) stated that he had not charged a man in uniform for a meal since the bombing of Pearl Harbor...
Churchill brought along his daughter, Mrs. Vic Oliver (full title: Section Officer Sarah Oliver, WAAF), as aide-de-camp and hostess. Trim in her blue uniform, she stunned a group of important British naval officers (who had not recognized her) by saying crisply: "You can't have any drinks before noon...
Roosevelt wore a business suit by day, dinner clothes at night. Churchill, who apparently realized how thoroughly the Russians were not amused by his "siren suit" at Moscow, wore the uniform of an R.A.F. air commodore, usually changed to dinner jacket at night. One evening he appeared as an honorary colonel of the Fourth Hussars, his old regiment. Stalin alternately wore two types of Marshal's uniforms, one in beige khaki, the other in slate-blue with white trouser-stripes...
Winston Churchill was absent when King George VI opened a new session of Parliament last week. When the King read his seventh opening address from the throne, he wore a naval uniform, sported a visored admiral's cap where his glittering crown should have been. The normal pageantry, usually a richly costumed charade suggesting Britain's history of kings and the common man's long fight for democratic self-government, was stripped to three essentials. The indispensables were: 1) the symbol of democracy; 2) the symbol of wealth; 3) the symbol of the King's safety...
...flyers manned land-based fighter stations, flew from carriers, operated their own military airline in the South Pacific. The Corps had full divisions in battle for the first time. It had all brands of field artillery, its own supply service, all the spare parts. It had put women into uniform and turned them into snappy soldiers, had broken the tradition of 167 years and taken Negro recruits. They had been made good Marines. Methodical, determined Tommy Holcomb had seen to that...