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...farmers were told that they must vacate their land for U.S. tank-training grounds. The natural reaction: they forgot that thousands of farmers had previously done the same for British, Canadian, even Polish troops. One softly cursed: "Aye, we went through the blitz . . . but the Americans take the land." >Sergeant -Michael Pihosh, American, was acquitted of the murder of an ATS private who had been partly undressed, beaten after a drunken dance. The case heightened the concern of many Britons for their women.† Pride & Poverty. These items were significant only as symptoms of a state of mind. In recent...
...Sergeant Peter Brook Saltonstall, somewhere in the South Pacific, gave his old man a break. He had been sending him $25 a month from his Marine pay, but the Governor of Massachusetts will henceforth...
...message seemed proper enough . . . but [Technical Sergeant] Sachnoff became suspicious. At that particular spot over Africa he had never been able to get strong signals from his base, and this message came in surprisingly clear. By using his radio compass [he] was able to determine that this message was coming from a direction ahead of his position . . . he radioed back to his base, warning them of the fake...
...home the Sergeant's flight passed about 150 Allied fighters heading at 30,000 ft. towards the false target. When these fighters reached the area . . . they found 45 Messerschmitts circling at 20,000 ft. . . . The Allies dove on the Me's, destroyed 30 of them. Sergeant Sachnoff received the D.F.C.-for being the type of guy who doesn't believe everything he hears...
...morning Peewee was acting as supply sergeant for her company when Private Kenny Jacobs came into the WAC's kitchen. Helpfully he poured some gasoline into the stove to prime it, splashed some on his clothes, set himself afire and collapsed in a mass of flames. Peewee threw herself on him, smothered the fire with her body, beat it out with her bare hands. Private Jacobs was carried off to the hospital, lucky to be alive; Peewee was carried off with him, for treatment of burns on her face and legs...