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Women in the Gilberts have never been wholly converted to the mission-style dress from neck to knee. By signs, a New York sergeant conveyed to a Makin girl that he wanted a grass skirt for a souvenir. Quickly she whipped hers off, politely offered it. The red-faced soldier hastily gave the gift-giver a large bandana handkerchief. Graciously she accepted, deftly wrapped it around her head...
...Iron Major" Frank W. Cavanaugh ("Old Cav"), late famed football coach of Boston College and Fordham, stalked across the columns of a Cassino casualty list: "Staff Sergeant David F. Cavanaugh, next of kin, Mrs. Florence E. Cavanaugh. ..." The sergeant (he is now recovering from face wounds) was "Dear Dave" of the Major's immortal letter home from the France of World War I. Wrote the Major to his son: ". . . You must always remember that your father came into this great war for the sake of all little children, and I know that you will, while I am gone, take...
...Sergeant Earl Brown wrote his wife...
Ernie Pyle, top G.I. war correspondent, called Sergeant Bill Mauldin the best cartoonist of the war. His drawings, thought Pyle, often went beyond comedy, were "terribly grim and real . . . about the men who are ... doing the dying." That was enough for smart George A. Carlin, boss of United Feature Syndicate. In a fortnight 22-year-old Sergeant Mauldin's unshaven, unsmiling infantryman "G.I. Joe" and his hard-faced pals will become syndicated newspaper characters. This week Carlin reported that 42 papers had signed...
...Sergeant Mauldin has been at the front in Sicily and Italy. His battle-weary "Joe," confusedly making the best of his hard, humorless life, began as a diversion for Mauldin's 45th Division, quickly spread to the North African edition of Stars & Stripes...