Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burma, which already had one such unit (Wingate's Raiders), had less than its share of good jungle troops. By this summer, the Marauders had carried the ball for Uncle Joe for three harrowing months of action, were shot through with malaria and other fevers, exhausted, suffering from malnutrition. They were sent to rear-base hospitals and rest camps. But there was no move to send them home. The virus of disaffection began to work...
Realization. Said the official report: "The resultant feeling on the part of individuals was that they were being double-crossed, and the feeling gradually grew up, abetted by certain officers, that the unit was an orphan, serving under an unsympathetic high command." That rang familiarly in Army ears: too often had the orphan complex been the fate of "special units...
When "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell discovered how his orders had been misconstrued, he wept. But it was too late. The Marauders were through as a combat unit. Now that the story was out, Army men wondered what would be done. The answer was: very little. General Merrill, ill for months, had already been replaced by Brigadier General Theodore F. Wessels who (with a few original Marauders) was leading a Chinese outfit at Myitkyina. For most of the original Marauders there were only the Army's red bathrobes, gloomy hospital talk, rear-base doldrums. Only official action taken...
...only thing dull about Resisting Enemy Interrogation is its title. This latest instructional product of the Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit is as much of a success in its own spy-thriller class as the FMPU's famed Technicolor documentary Memphis Belle (TIME, April...
...Sergeant Cole is from Atlanta. A pretty little German nurse promptly knocks Cole's guard down by confiding that she has just finished Gone With the Wind. Enamored, he never suspects a thing when she produces a fake Red Cross form and gets him to fill in his unit's number and its base (Naples...