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...should take just as little as possible with them to Reception Centers, officers of the Department suggested, pointing out that soldiers are in the habit of carrying their own baggage. One important item to remember is plenty of underwear, since GI issue is often short on that. Sneakers are a good idea, and pajamas should be taken if desired...
...done. We get a sweet picture of how the babes will go for that. The average girl will probably be so bored after her first few weeks in the forces that upon her first leave she will cloister herself in some nearby forest and cry a half dozen GI hankies into a complete state of saturation...
This stage of the kriegspiel was the tactical moment for the British southern units in Giálo to move northwestward to cut off the Axis retreat into Tripoli. This maneuver, if successful, would give Britain's new Lieut. General Neil Methuen
Timing of the various column movements was vital to such a plan. It was important that Cunningham get his forces around the Axis coast positions in time to cooperate with the southern forces that made the dash westward straight across the desert to Giálo, thence northward toward the shore between Bengazi and Tripoli. By the time the southern unit had reached the oasis at Giálo, the coastal forces were behind schedule, leaving the Giálo unit out on a limb. Though Ritchie took over on Nov. 26, only eight days after the offensive had begun...
...GI. Job of the first division of the General Staff is preparation of plans and policies for personnel from recruiting to discharge. Its sphere includes Army pay, promotion, regulations, recreation, religion. Boss of G-1 is handsome, polished 55-year-old Brigadier General William Edgar Shedd Jr., a coast artilleryman who has served in Hawaii and the Philippines, taught mathematics at West Point, directed the A. E. F.'s Heavy Artillery School in France...