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...with $40 million to go. The raft-sitters got no pity. Small boys on the river bank tauntingly waved hot dogs and ice-cream cones at them. Older folks heckled: "Why aren't you fellows at work?" Said one morose raft-sitter: "We'll stay here till Hell freezes over if it helps sell bonds. But if not, we want to know. We're sure ready...
...Damned rear guard holding up a whole division," he said. "Where are our troops?" He swung his binoculars north. "Oh, yeh. I see three of them. Crossing an open field. Why the hell don't they take cover?" A few minutes later he crawled over to a slit-trench phone, talked to a regimental commander. "Of course, your battalion commander knows more about the situation than I do," he said smoothly. "But maybe we ought to get in there fast and exploit this barrage." Back at the outpost, he commented: "We're going to attack in half...
...Ultimate Job. The bruising melee on the beaches of Salerno had been hell for the men of the Fifth. It had been touch & go, as Winston Churchill said, "from day three to day seven." But hell for the men was a school for the generals...
...dentist, a candymaker) and spent most of their spare time at the job; a few became so enthusiastic that they quit their jobs to make prisms fulltime. Their pay: expenses, a small profit, and an incentive to ride a hobby as hard as possible. Cried one fanatic: "To hell with the money...
Last month Captain Samuel Louis Palmer Jr., 24, arrived in China. "Well, here I am." he wrote back to Fort Worth, "a little closer to home because the world is round. I led my new squadron across a hell of a lot of country to get here. . . . Came over Palestine-Jericho, where the walls came tumbling down. I ought to make a good Sunday-School teacher when I get back and I think I will. . . . Met General Chennault day before yesterday and he sure is a swell egg. . . . We're the first of the P-38s over here...