Word: paratroopers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Bradley looked the part of an outdoorsman. His G.I. trousers were stuffed into high paratroop boots. Under his old, stained trench coat he wore an issue combat jacket. His shirt, tie and field cap with its three stars were all issue. His tall (just over six feet), lanky, comfortably sprawling figure was anything but dashing. But his dark grey eyes, flashing from under heavy black brows in a homely, bony face ranged wide, missed nothing...
...always the life of the party, and Jimmy is sure he knows what he looks like (see cover). But in Jimmy's comedy, Umbriago may assume many shapes-clarinetist, bank president, farmer-according to whatever mischief Durante is up to. Umbriago is also at war. One U.S. Army paratroop division has abandoned the classic paratrooper cry Geronimo! in favor of Umbriago...
...next day at dawn, the Canadians spilled into the town's edge, found the Germans dug in. Usually Jerry held on to a position as long as possible, then withdrew after blowing up bridges, demolishing buildings, mining and booby trapping. This time, fresh troops of the First Paratroop Division, under the command of heavy-jowled, cigar-smoking Major General Richard Heidrich, had orders to fight to the last man and the last round...
Lieut. Colonel Serge Obolensky, top-ranking extraman of Manhattan, won a tribute from the World-Telegram's society editor. She reported that the durable charmer, "famed for his graceful waltzing, wasn't handicapped in the slightest by his heavy paratroop boots when he twirled around the St. Regis Roof the other evening...
Courage in India. In India, two native paratroop students got to worrying on the eve of their first jump, asked an officer: "From what height?" "Five hundred feet." "Nothing doing," they chorused, tried to bargain for 300, were told the chutes might not have time to open. "Oh, that's different," they sighed, "We get parachutes...