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Attended by loyal friends, Marjorie Burt and Bob Yingst of the eighth platoon were married Octobar 15. This was the first of a rash which has broken out in our company. The following week Betty McNaron wed elderly Ensign Kessler, whom everyone had believed to be a confirmed bachelor...
Milton Saul the Moss Hart among many wrote and acted in the seventh platoon skit which had them in the aisles. He was given the highest tribute when on of his gags (the overcoat one) was widely quoted...
...been having many fascinating training films of late. Most recent was "The Anti-Submarine Platoon in the Attack, Supported by a Section of 60-mm Mortars...
...anti-submarine platoon comes under the jurisdiction of the Ambiguous Training Command with headquarters at the abandoned WAC Information Booth on Boston Common...
There was old (25 years) "Sergeant Dick," who got his name from calling everyone Dick. Talkative, Ozarkian, lanky, he harangued his platoon half hours at a time, often to heights of innocent eloquence, as in his farewell speech: "I ain't a sacred man, but we gonna win, 'cause we got folks ta home what's got a mighty big drag wid de Man 'at runs 'a whole shebang...