Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Americans in China, being civilians in uniform, are ready to go home, and the hell with it. They believe that they accurately reflect public opinion at home...
...shell-scarred, balconied Manila ballroom Japan's General Tomoyuki Yamashita, onetime "Tiger of Malaya" and "Beast of Bataan," was on trial for his life. He looked incredibly tame and safe, a froglike man in a green uniform who sat shaven-headed, sleepy-eyed, almost motionless at a long table. Occasionally he smiled. In the ordered courtroom uniformed attorneys shuffled papers, entered objections, laboriously introduced exhibits...
...have their choice between Army & Navy, among different branches inside the services. Like World War II's selectees, they will take aptitude tests, be assigned-within the limit of quotas-to training and jobs for which they are best fitted. They will probably wear some sort of cadet uniform, not yet designed, to distinguish them from regular soldiers & sailors...
...Brigadier General in the reserves who had found the Army "a little hard to take at first" last week found himself in one of the Army's biggest jobs: Under Secretary of War. The one-star Under Secretary, who will soon be out of uniform: placid, moose-tall (6 ft. 5, 240 Ibs.) Kenneth Claiborne Royall...
...spectacular return to the people of the people's fleet, 90% manned by civilians in uniform. Aboard the veteran carrier Enterprise, berthed in New York's crowded Hudson River, bespectacled Vice Admiral Frederick Sherman interrupted his breakfast to observe: "Ships of the greatest fleet in the world have dropped anchor in the greatest city in the world." Thousands from the city clambered aboard his ship. Aboard the destroyer Foote, six-month-old Timothy Sexton came face to face for the first time in his life with his seaman father, home from the Pacific. On a New Orleans dockside...