Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eighteen Heroes. Next day a sharp-eyed sergeant in a B-17 spotted the two life rafts tied together just off his plane's left wing. The B-17 circled to drop smoke bombs and green-dye markers, then flew in low to release a parachute-borne "Flying Dutchman" lifeboat. "It was a beautiful drop," said Grable. "Right in our laps." Seventy-nine hours after their B-29 went down, the bearded, haggard survivors were hoisted safely over the rail of the Canadian destroyer Haida...
...destroyer. Newsmen crowded around to hear about the saga. "What did we talk about?" repeated Grable. "Well-'will you please move over and give me some room?' Only we didn't say 'please.' " Was there any hero in the lot? "Yeah," rumbled one ' sergeant, "there was 18 of them...
Though Scripter Robert Pirosh fought in the foxholes near Bastogne, his story is littered with humor, characters and incidents made familiar by every war story since What Price Glory. His soldiers, never silent, are always armed with dialogue that should keep movie audiences giggling and, in the acceptable Sergeant Flagg style, mordantly gripe and gibe at each other. That fixture of war movies, the rookie (Marshall Thompson) with the Mother's Boy face and a frightened desire to please the grownups, turns up in the first scene; not long after, enters the friendly, lushly curved peasant girl (Denise Darcel...
...fell down, I'd have to wait till the snow melted to get up." Mama stills skis a bit. Francis and Peter are the athletes in the family. Francis spent several of his war years in the Camp Hale ski troops where Torger Tokle was his platoon sergeant. Peter Jr., however, chose the Air Corps where he was a crew chief on a B-29. Both the boys look forward to a break in the business rush when they can dash up to Tuckerman's or Cannon Mountain with the Brockton Ski Club...
...other Graveses (his wife; six children). But because he is one of the most talented and erudite men alive, he is incapable of writing anything that is not of some stature and interest. The Islands of Unwisdom cannot be compared to his best novels (I, Claudius, Claudius the God, Sergeant Lamb's America), but it yields a rich vegetation of outlandish history, and its narrative is skillfully knocked together by a carpenter who knows his nails and timber...