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...soldiers, "Sad Sack" is the funniest little lug who ever got a typhus shot or tried to goldbrick out of a duty. Sad Sack, lugubrious comic-strip creation of onetime Disney Animator Sergeant George Baker, leads a life of misadventure in the Army's newspaper Yank. Soldier readers think Sad Sack is comical because he is so forlorn...
From the Enemy. Jap prisoners of some Marines on Guadalcanal, Kahn relates, spent half the time boasting about their leaders, the other half begging for cigarets. "One Marine first sergeant hit upon the happy notion of requiring that each Jap, before getting a cigaret, recite loudly: 'Tojo is a son of a bitch...
...South Africa; in '95 severely wounded on Jameson's raid from Mafeking into the Transvaal; the next year sole survivor, again severely wounded, of a surveying expedition for Cecil Rhodes's Capetown-to-Cairo telegraph line. Lyon fought in the Spanish-American War, served as a sergeant major through the Philippine Insurrection. Home from the wars, he prospected in the Klondike, worked on the Panama Canal, in 1915 settled down as a Connecticut power official. At 61 the old campaigner learned to fly, in '42 was on active anti submarine patrol duty off the New England...
Round-faced Sergeant Heinrich Kikillus, 32, and hard-faced Sergeant Erhard Schwichtenberg, sometime members of Rommel's hard-boiled Afrika Korps, were held as witnesses. Their punishment will not be hard. Private Maple...
...Captain Ross (Dana Andrews) the Japs.attempt no torture, learn nothing from him. Sergeant Skvoznik (Kevin )'Shea) is a former Ail-American, and nobody worries about his cracking. Torture reduces him to idiocy. Lieut. Bay-forth (Charles Russell) comes back to his cell with his mutilated hands concealed by black gloves. Lieut. Vincent (Donald Barry) survives with just enough mind left to stumble through snatches of The Battle Hymn of the Republic...