Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every available Army man in uniform training at Harvard will be out at Soldiers Field at 5:30 o'clock the afternoon of September 29 as the combined Army Training Schools, in their first review, pay honor to Colonel William Scott Wood and Colonel Phillip Fox, who will both take terminal leaves of absence the very next...
Soldiers, after all, are just ordinary American citizens in uniform. It's not giving away any military secrets to say that most of us . . . still prefer the sports section and the comics. Only three or four out of a company get TIME or any other periodical on current events. . . . Friends of mine in other camps bear me out that soldiers do little thinking about world affairs...
...Major General St. Clair Streett was relieved of command of the Third Air Force (Southeast U.S.) and sent to an overseas assignment. The first man in the Army to wear brass buttons on his O.D. uniform,* wiry Jimmy Streett has recently been concentrating on the training of big-bomber crews...
...charges involved five of the Articles of War. Specifications: drunk and disorderly in uniform, conduct unbecoming an officer; willful misappropriation of Government property*; snooting of Willie McRae, a Negro private at the field; procuring unlawful transfers of enlisted men and noncoms to Selfridge; accepting a vacation lodge from the father of two unlawfully transferred men; obtaining the transfer of Private Benson Ford (grandson of Henry Ford) to Selfridge. On all charges, Colonel Colman pleaded not guilty...
Soldiers knew the name of Sir Samuel James Browne, not for any of these solid accomplishments, but for his casual invention, some time in the 1870s, of a handy leather uniform belt. As a one-armed man, Sir Samuel had trouble managing the dangling saber at his left side. To solve the problem he hooked the saber up to his waist belt within easy reach, then designed a cross-belt running over the right shoulder to carry part of the weight. Two-armed officers liked the belt as much as Sir Samuel did. The Sam Browne belt became standard throughout...