Word: barracks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armed forces were sketching away at odd moments long before Pearl Harbor. But this year the War Department's Office of Special Service has discovered that U.S. fighting men take a new pride in their humdrum daily tasks when they see them selves and their work immortalized on barrack-room canvases, mess-hall murals. Today, many big U.S. Army camps have their own art classes, and art workshops and army art have become the province of a special office in Washington's War Department...
...keep their ears to the barrack rooms, Yank staffmen will be rotated "back to camp" from its head office in Manhattan. Yank correspondents will follow the combat units, fight when necessary, rate as fighting men, not correspondents, if captured. Says Executive Editor Captain Hartzell Spence, ex-U.P. promotion manager and author of One Foot in Heaven: "Suppose one of our reporters goes along on a Commando raid. If he comes back we've got a great story. If he doesn't come back we've got a casualty...
...construction genius on the Guantanamo housing job is named Albert Williamson. He is 25, has been in the Marine Corps for six years, hails from Matthews, N.C. He is a corporal now, is stationed at Parris Island, S.C. He was not eager for publicity, fearing his barrack mates would rib him. TIME earnestly hopes they will...
Among all the critics of the Army's semiautomatic Garand rifle (TIME, May 6, et seq.), none has been more acid than the U. S. Marine Corps. But none was more discreet. Marines confined their criticisms to barrack-room griping and a few oblique references at Congressional hearings. Reasons: the Corps is part of the Navy, in many matters is therefore subject to the Navy hierarchy, but the Marines get their weapons and ammunition from the War Department, whose ordnance officers developed and cherished the Garand...
...book purports to be a soldier's reminiscences, written in 1814. Young Roger Lamb met a recruiting officer in a public house and, several drinks later, found himself sworn in for a long stretch of barrack-room life. In 1776 he was shipped overseas to the rebellious New World. There he defended Montreal from Benedict Arnold's militia, lived with the Indians of the Six Nations to learn wilderness warfare, marched with Burgoyne to recapture Crown Point and Ticonderoga, surrendered honorably to General Gates at Saratoga...