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When the picture reaches its climactic reels of action and offensive battle, filmed by Marine Sergeant Arthur Steckler, ex-MOT camera trainee, audiences should feel the same brave emotion as Private Charlie Bulis, USMC, crouched for the first time in the bottom of an invasion-barge, whispering to himself, "This...
...February morning, the wind whistles off the snow and ice of the Flatbush meadows. The barracks at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, windows open, are very, very cold. And cold seems the heart of Sergeant Earl Sanborn, USMC, who on the dot of 6:15 clumps into the bunk room in his undershirt, pipes two shrill blasts on his whistle, bellows: "Hit the deck...
Vice President Childs knew about the crackup. It occurred, he was positive, because the pilot, Staff Sergeant Gordon K. Heritage, USMC, had tried to take off before the rotor was turning at sufficient speed. The ship fell from about 30 ft., wrecking the undercarriage and breaking the rotor blades at the tips when it hit the ground. Otherwise all four blades remained intact...
WILLIAM A. EDDY Captain, USMC Ret. Department of English Dartmouth College, Hanover...