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...Raft. A West Pointer, and an Air Corpsman since 1924, Twining headed the Thirteenth Air Force when it was formed in January 1943 to support the drive up the Solomon Islands. A few days later, Twining was flying in a Fortress from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal to Espiritu Santo. A violent tropical storm forced the plane down at sea, and General Twining and his men were adrift in rubber rafts for six days, living on fish and seagulls, before patrol bombers rescued them...
...murmured through stern lips that the upkeep, especially of gloves, was terrific. The Provost Marshal called the new equipment an aid to dignity and blackout identification. The G.I.s called its rednecked wearers a distasteful new name: "snowdrop." Easy-going General Ike, who has a spit-and-polish West Pointer inside, decided the whole European Theater of Operations personnel needed sprucing up. He decreed snappier and more frequent saluting, and an end to the unsoldierly practice of looking away on crowded city streets, when a salute was to be given or acknowleged...
...were friends." Why the Marines? Some theorists claim that marines are good fighters be cause they must always fight, war or peace. More than once Army officers have tried to abolish the Marine Corps -Douglas MacArthur as Chief of Staff had the last notable try. Many a West Pointer will still argue that the picked troops of the Marine Corps should be leading the Army's vast collection of average guys: "We could use all those privates for sergeants." At the same time the Marine generals always must struggle with the Navy for a bigger role in tactical decisions...
Died. Charles Erskine Scott Wood, 91, famed Californian; in Los Gatos, Calif. The eccentric corporation lawyer was a fighting liberal, poet, satirist (Heavenly Discourse), had been a West Pointer ('74), Indian fighter, longtime friend of Jack London and Mark Twain...
There were other stories of unsoldierly conduct by West Pointer Patton. On one occasion he had pounced on a group of anti-aircraft men who had just beaten off an enemy attack, with casualties. Those...