Word: buglers
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Betty Bandel, 32, a onetime Arizona newspaper woman, played a trumpet in the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and was terrified that the WACs would make her a bugler. She made herself a model officer, is director of WACs in the Army Air Forces...
...awkward body below the Arc de Triomphe and laid on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier two bunches of flame-colored gladioli. The flame at the tomb still burned. De Gaulle laid a Cross of Lorraine, fashioned of white roses, beside the gladioli, and stood at attention while a bugler sounded Aux Marts (taps...
...enemy pressure, began to steal glum looks at their watches. At 12:14 a weary officer muttered: "They'll never make it now." At that moment, through the crash and rattle of gunfire and mortar shells, came a distant skirling of bagpipes, the Commandos' signal. A paratroop bugler answered with "Defaulters,"* indicating that the road immediately ahead had Germans on it, and that the first Commando-men should go around them...
...Marine platoon presented arms, the bugler played "To the Colors" as the U.S. flag fluttered up the staff. From under the rustling coconut palms a solemn group of natives watched the formal institution of U.S. military rule. This was the first segment of the Japanese Empire to be captured by the U.S.-one of the outer atolls of the Marshall Islands...
...London office spent the day in bed getting over the flu that is epidemic there-or else resting up to fight it off. But Bill Walton helped a group of our flyers give a Christmas Eve party for 40 British orphans, and next morning he was up before the bugler going from Nissen hut to Nissen hut stuffing presents in the stockings of sleeping soldiers...