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...tank's commander, rangy, red-haired Lieut. Colonel Frank R. Williams of the Armored Force, was sitting on a 14-inch-square leather seat, bolted to the iron deck, alongside the 75-mm. gun. His head, protected by a yellow leather crash helmet, was pressed against an oblong sponge-rubber rim which framed the eyepiece of an 18-in. telescopic gun sight. Whenever his target centered in the cross hairs of the sight, he touched an electric firing key, watched a 15-lb. high-explosive projectile rip through a framework target tank...
...right, there'll be no skylarkin' in barracks.). First they had learned to march, how to shoot out their feet and straighten their knees, not plod along like civilians. And they had learned that a soldier marches with his head up (Hey, you, eyes off the deck.), is alert in obeying commands (Get going, you Camp Fire Girls.). They had been given a quick splash into military courtesy (Salute, you, this ain't Boys' Town...
...barracks at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, windows open, are very, very cold. And cold seems the heart of Sergeant Earl Sanborn, USMC, who on the dot of 6:15 clumps into the bunk room in his undershirt, pipes two shrill blasts on his whistle, bellows: "Hit the deck...
...time> Only two escaped. The French flagship Orient took fire and blew up-and with it died the flag captain's son, Giacomo Casabianca, whose willful refusal to get away with the crew won him a sort of immortality as Felicia Dorothea Hemans' Boy on the Burning Deck...
...past four months, the major networks have scrambled desperately to be first on deck with a program for the 16,316,908 draft eligibles and their families. Last week CBS put on a show designed not only to corral this made-to-order audience but also to be spotted opposite (and stymie) Radio's Number One Boy Jack Benny, who attracts upwards of 11,000,000 families of listeners for NBC each week. Known as Dear Mom, the CBS show is patterned after Ed Streeter's Dere Mable letters of World War I, is sponsored by Wrigley...