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Charlie Gould, more widely known is "Form the Battalion," has even notices the improvement in singing and when the falling in at muster improves as much he intimated that we may expect more baseball and less column movements during the week...
Their troops on all fronts were tired, mournfully seeded with ragtag & bobtail levies from the conquered countries of Europe. The troops they faced were well-trained, superbly equipped and by now better fighting machines, weight for weight, than the Reich could muster...
...still a crashing Allied victory in Italy. Already General Harold R.L.G. Alexander's armies had cut down the German forces by 80,000 to 100,000 dead, wounded and captured. Even last week when the enemy threw in all the mines, road blocks, and mobile artillery he could muster, when he had committed eight and a half of his twelve divisions in Italy, the Allies still made gains...
...Famine. Whatever Japan's goal, she put a lot of muscle behind her drive: perhaps two full divisions (30,000 men), one of them headed by roly-poly, arrogant Lieut. General Seiichi Kita, the mastermind of Japanese political puppetry in North China. Against this force the Chinese could muster a large but poorly armed, undertrained army under a good general, burly Veteran...
...duty: For Hagg, none other . . . sources near the new muster-master intimate he will be shovin' off for the mine sweeping racket again . . . Understand, that's purely tentative, old man . . . Another possible change in the regimental setup, they say, would send O'Connor to Fisher's Island on probationary status . . . Sounds fantastic, of course, but it's fannin' the breeze anyway . . . I didn't believe it myself . . . of course, though you can ask some of the guys in the first platoon; they started it . . . And, confidentially, I think that's a lot of bull about O'Connor slapping Hansen...