Word: platoon
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...advance guard of 25 platoon leaders have already "invaded" the Business School in preparation for the occupation of the buildings across the river by 400 members of the Navy Finance School's summer session...
...looks like his brother, talks like him, resembles him no further. Singer Ruth Terry (Alexander's Ragtime Band] reveals that she has not forgotten how to sell a song; Songstress Gertrude Niesen is scarcely given a chance to. Silly shot: Comedian Eddie Foy Jr. giving commands to his platoon in such a singsong voice that the platoon breaks into a conga...
...first platoon had already gone through that mill. From the commanding officer, Major William M. Miley, down to the last private, they had made at least six jumps each (the lowest from 750 feet), will make many more, working their jumping altitude down to 300. This week, husky Major Miley was ready to go back to his outfit from the post hospital where he had been laid up with a fractured shoulder (from jumping with an 80-lb. load of equipment), hoped that he would have his whole outfit qualified as six-jumpers by spring. Trained to pack and maintain...
...military eye is struck by the film's omissions as much as by its revealing details. Left out are the much-touted flame-throwing tanks and the anti-tank rifle, bigger than an elephant gun. which the Germans copied from the Poles and with which every infantry platoon is now supposed to be equipped. Most impressive is the constant presence of artillery far up in the front lines. Wherever there are tanks, there too is artillery, to batter enemy tanks. Engineers are everywhere, too, building pontoon bridges, clearing debris, mining obstacles. The slow, energy-saving step of the infantry...
...young Marine) is first repelled, then fascinated by the shout of a sweating sergeant to his bleeding, hesitant platoon...