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Even before they had time to sleep or wipe the sweat, dirt and blood off their faces, a group of U.S. Marines was whisked straight from the fight on Eniwetok to somebody's idea of heaven: a movie. Dog-tired, they were glad enough to flop down anywhere. Suddenly on the wrinkled screen, smiling winsomely, glowed the features of Frank Sinatra. And soft against the battle-battered Marine eardrums throbbed Frank's velvet protestations of his love for them. There was a short, amazed, ecstatic silence; then the Marines yawped, groaned and moaned, "Frankie, Oh Frankie, Oh Frankie...
...Busy Days. On Sept. 13, near Altavilla, on the Salerno front, Kelly volunteered for a patrol assigned to wipe out enemy machine-gun positions. Said Kelly...
...understand a sanitation problem you have to understand the work. . . . During the snow period we operate big brooms. A person driving that equipment goes through a very tense period. What I mean is: we have very few windshield wipers to wipe the snow away-have to open the windshield of the machine so you could see. The outcome is this, that as the broom works, it sweeps the snow in the air and the wind blows it in the cab, and the result is that eight hours of that continuous work, you'll have icicles running down your eyes...
...great areas of American ignorance about war. Americans are rightly opposed to the use of poison gas by U.S. troops - but for the wrong reasons. The U.S. imagination has been fed by lurid writings of super-scientists and pacifist writers, picturing a "dew of death" which would wipe out whole cities overnight. Real scientists scoff at any such invention. Gases today are basically the same as in World War I. The real reason for not using gas is not that it is inhumane or immoral, but that it is ineffective...
...fireman, to give them an equal chance at other jobs down the line. He cited figures showing a recent shortage of 850 firemen on U.S. railroads, although trained Negro firemen were unemployed. Chairman Ross was itching for a showdown. Said he: "We may not be able to wipe out discrimination overnight, but where war manpower needs are at stake we can and shall...