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...Staff Sergeant Maynard ("Snuffy") Smith, being decorated with the Congressional Medal of Honor in England last July...
Promoter for the affair is Company A's Top Sergeant Isacowitz, who has pulled a reputable cast of talented artists together...
Frenesi, with steady Lieut. William Cely of Houston, Tex. in the pilot's seat, got her bombs away all right, but she had been hurt; she was "a mess of holes and ribbons." The fighters hung on. Said Gunner Sergeant Everett Hudson Jr. of West Point, Miss...
...Sergeant Camille Gagnon, a French-Canadian ex-butcher, lay for 14 hours on the frozen ground, between counterattacking Germans and his comrades on a newly taken hill. His warnings enabled the Canadians to repulse a dozen counterattacks. Then the Germans brought an 88-mm. field gun to bear on Gagnon. Feeling safe, the Germans attacked the hill again. Gagnon, still whole, shouted another warning. The Germans quit trying...
...play, which ambles up-country through several months of the North African campaign, accumulates neither meaning nor suspense. Nor can it hold up as straight reporting, for most of it is purpled by the storybook struggle between a U.S. top sergeant (Myron McCormick) and a titled British captain (Bramwell Fletcher) over an Australian nurse. The captain is out of a Punch cartoon, the girl just out of this world. In the end, while Stukas blaze overhead, the proud peer gamely reads the marriage service over the girl and the better...