Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Courage & Cracks. Like Cartoonist Bill Mauldin (another Yank contributor) Reporter Bernstein presents his G.I.s with affection, understanding, some acid humor, no glamor. In foxholes and juke joints these free-&-easy democrats bristle with the sour, witty, aggressively individualistic, trigger-quick cracks that make the U.S. warrior incomprehensible (and therefore frightening) to his enemies. With a keen ear for idiom and a deft hand with dialogue, Reporter Bernstein has successfully put the G.I. gripe down on paper...
...Right to Gripe. Bernstein's most unpredictable tour of duty was with the actors (as press agent) of This Is the Army. At drill, intimidated sergeants would hesitate to give the order "Fall Out" because of the three or four irrepressibles who obeyed by falling flat on their faces. One day an ex-vaudevillian was assigned to calisthenic drill. "Inhale!" he shouted. The men inhaled. "Outhale!" They outhaled. "Sidehale!" "What the hell is that?" a regular corporal demanded. "A new breathing method. Field Manual 36-B, with Kreplach...
...paratrooper at Fort Benning said to Bernstein, "I wish to hell there was some other way of getting up here." "Don't you like to jump?" Bernstein asked. "I love to jump. I just don't like these damned airplanes." "I'm disappointed," said another after his third jump. "You just come up and fall out. You don't have to do a thing. A roller coaster is worse...
...Young Bernstein saw his fellow G.I.s in every stage of training and battle. The hardboiled humor that sparkles on his pages is an understated testament to their spirit and courage...
...full of the burnt smell of shooting and the men's ears rang with gunfire on the day a small reconnaissance group raided a town in Sicily. As they moved cautiously along, Bernstein glanced across the street at a young private named Taylor. "Isn't this like the movies?" Taylor said with a grin. "Isn't this just like the movies...