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...Army is having trouble with its medium (48½-ton) M-47 tank, turned out by General Motors. The bug is a defective transmission screw in 6,450 M-47 and M48 tanks. On rough terrain, it drops loose and damages the transmission. Cost of repairs and replacement: over...
That D-day on June 22, 1941 was like so many other German D-days: a complete pushover. Lying at the edge of the woods with his infantry platoon only 20 yards from the Bug River, Corporal Gnotke saw the small Russian-held village on the other side pulverized in a matter of minutes by German planes and guns. When the infantry attacked, there was no resistance, only dazed old people and the smell of burning flesh. As a newly arrived lieutenant had reflected the night before: "The Führer can work wonders...
...Bug-Out Song. Throughout U.S. history, Negroes have fought-and died -in the nation's wars (and Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave, was the first to fall in the Boston Massacre of 1770, prelude to the American Revolution). Yet always the verdict was the same: in combat, Negro units were "unreliable"-a euphemism for an uglier word. Even in the Korean war-nearly three years after President Truman's 1948 order for armed-forces equality-the classic story was of Negroes who fled from battle, then huddled around a campfire singing The Bug Out Boogie, the "official song...
thud, The old Deuce-Four begins to bug...
...even as that tale went its round, segregation was ending-and with it the old belief in "bug out" as an inborn Negro weakness. The Navy, under the firm hand of James Forrestal, had started integration first of all, but soon began to run aground on service traditions. The Air Force started its successful program less than a year after the Truman order, and the Marine Corps moved ahead. The Army, as Author Nichols says, was "the mule of the military team." Korea changed that; there simply were not enough white replacements, and field commanders were forced to fill...