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...revolution, the Spanish War or in one of his many personal encounters in civilian life. Levy specialties, as taught in both Britain and the U.S.: use of incendiaries, bombs and grenades, harassing enemy communications, and tactics such as: delaying armored vehicles with infantry, small improvised weapons, hand-to-hand combat, scouting, counter-parachute-troop action, street fighting...
...with cruisers and destroyers in the usual triangular formations. Wisely the U.S. cruisers and destroyers again stayed with their carriers. Not once during the battle did the U.S. and Jap warships get a shot at each other. Off went the planes, into history's first carrier-v.-carrier combat...
...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...
...pavements set up camps on atolls in the Pacific or led men through the drifting fogs of the Aleutians to new homes that must be built. In the miasmas of Surinam and on the steamy flats of Africa, U.S. soldiers broiled at their work. Their lives and their combat effectiveness hung on the S.O.S. And the work of the S.O.S. hung on a myriad details, some so small that an office boy could handle them...
When the U.S. entered World War I, Captain Somervell went to France with an engineer outfit, built munitions depots, helped set up a railroad, sneaked off briefly in a general's car (with proper permission) to win his D.S.C. in combat. He was a lieutenant colonel at 26 when the war ended. After service in the Army of Occupation he went back to the Engineers' routine...