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...Marshall Way. In early 1941, George Marshall picked Courtney Hodges as Chief of Infantry. The man who could not make West Point's grade became a major general. Hodges had proved to Marshall that his Army-trained mind was not stereotyped, that he was quick to grasp ideas, thorough in getting them into execution. As Infantry Chief, Hodges was concerned with training and new weapons. His knowledge of guns began to pay dividends. Hodges' insistence that an infantryman should have a weapon to stop a tank was an early influence in fostering the mortar-type bazooka. Other Hodges...
...citizens who have never completed the fourth grade (Army literacy standard) still come from the same old place: poor country schools (most heavily concentrated in the South...
After V-E day, shipping shortages will leave tens of thousands of unneeded troops temporarily stranded in Europe and Africa. To keep them occupied, the Army this week was rapidly completing plans for an elective educational program (less serious G.I.s have a choice of supervised recreation), including every grade of study from literacy classes to postgraduate seminars...
...Basic unit schools, attached to battalions, will range from sixth grade through second-year college, with special primary classes for illiterates. The curriculum will include vocational courses in mechanical crafts, agriculture, business administration, etc. More than 1,200 such schools will be set up, each big enough to handle between...
Facing certain defeat, the Japs could only take steps to ward off the final assault as long as possible. Example: the Japs decided that their aluminum industry must be re-geared to the use of low-grade ore found in their own islands and in Korea, Manchuria and north China; fine bauxite from Malaya and the islands would soon be cut off by the Allied recapture of the southern islands...