Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crack of the evening was the one about the boys going in the Army-soon in order to relieve the WAACs for active duty! Another cynical member of the QMC remarked that this was a funny world--there was a war on and here were all the women in uniform and the men in mufti! . . . It was kinds funny, at that...
...chosen the night before would be heard by the world. On the speaker's platform were turbaned Arab leaders and the U.S. and British Ministers, Robert Murphy and Harold Macmillan, instruments of pressure for the liberalization of the Giraud regime. Freshly barbered, bayonet-straight in a tan uniform with five stars twinkling on each sleeve, Giraud strode to the platform. Green-bereted members of the Chantiers de la Jeunesse swung bugles high and blasted a march tune in his honor...
...expected then that this first call would be all-inclusive, and that by the end of that month, all the Air Corps men would be in uniform. Only men designated for pilot training were included in the first call, since training facilities for ground crew men were, at that time, unavailable. In the more recent orders, however, ground crew men may receive their notification...
...popularly supposed that all boys who want to be airmen must have perfect eyesight, many an Army & Navy air cadet knows better. Eye exercises sufficiently improved his faulty eyes to give him a crack at the course. And many an enlisted man has eye exercises to thank for his uniform. Examples...
...Break a Siege. One day in January 1941, Franklin Roosevelt called in Pat Hurley, then a 59-year-old reserve colonel, who had worn his first uniform 40 years before in the Indian Territory militia. The mission he assigned to -Pat was breathtaking: to break the blockade of Bataan from outside, get some food and ammunition to MacArthur's beleaguered soldiers. As a brigadier general, Pat Hurley took some millions of dollars and flew to Australia. There he hired shippers who were willing to take the slim chance. Several ships got through-for every one that made...