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...Combat reports have made Artilleryman Snyder's observation a truism...
...that moment a bomb fragment removed the gunner's other leg; Roosevelt suffered a slight hand wound. Big Pancho gave the gunner morphine, applied a tourniquet, lugged him below to sick bay. Says Reynolds: His crew worship the guy. They say he's terrific in combat...
There was the small man with the big remains that Bragg's were colorful. Their muscles, the close combat instructor and fiendish ("scrub barracks tonight") platoon sergeant. He had the "cadre complex" and had it bad, and was continually nasty in a high-pitched way. Then came the first cool day, when he winsomely confided that he was an ex-English teacher, that his greatest ambition was to come to Harvard after the war as a graduate student, "and just read for a year...
...mostly there was sand, and the dust of the sand, and the heat crawling night, and dirty clothes. There was a lot of artillery and a lot of digging and crawling, and a lot of training that was designed for and that they know readied them for, combat duty...
...Diego came a battle-tried Marine outfit, Fighter Squadron 124, first unit to use the Corsair against the Japanese. In eight months of desperately tough operations, Fighter Squadron 124 had shot down 68 enemy planes, lost only three men. Now its pilots, home for rest and new combat orders, had only praise for the rugged, high-performance, hard hitting, crooked-wing Corsair...