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...that boat and made for a motor gunboat. Mac pulled me aboard, that's Sergeant Major McEvoy, a grand guy. He told me my eye was gone and he bandaged my forehead. We got orders to transfer to a destroyer and Mac practically carried me up those ropes. I was pretty weak. He put me in the sick bay and said: "You'll be all right now, Joe." Then we got dive-bombed and a big hole was blown in the sick bay. The blast blew everyone around and I just about passed out. Mac got blown...
...British approach tactic was new. There was no formation. The 94 pilots flew so low through 300 miles of mist to Le Creusot that they saw Frenchmen waving. A sergeant pilot described the flight: "As we all took the hedges it was like the Grand National except that there were no falls. It was like flying over England, only more beautiful. People on the ground seemed stunned by the great flock of Lancasters and the noise. We saw no fighters on the way, but a duck came through the windshield with a wallop. My front gunner's turret...
...Sergeant Shapiro, who before the war was a chemist for a New Jersey flavoring-extract firm, has already brewed 50,000 cc. of the poison-ivy inoculant-enough for half a million injections. But the extract is not his invention. It was developed by Colonel Sanford Williams French, a longtime Army doctor who commands the medical branch of the Fourth Service Command. French, one of the 40% of mankind who are relatively immune to poison ivy, can safely gather the plant barehanded. Sergeant Shapiro cannot. Paradoxically, he is one of the few individuals on whom the poison-ivy extract will...
...play-which takes its rather farfetched title from a legend that on St. Mark's Eve (April 24) a young girl standing at a church door may see the ghosts of all those who will die within the year-is dedicated to the author's nephew, Sergeant Lee Chambers, "one of the first to go, one of the first to die that we may keep this earth for free men." It is the thought of some other or possible Sergeant Chambers in every spectator's mind that accentuates the poignancy of Maxwell Anderson's drama...
There was definite improvement over last year. The men were hard; last year sometimes one-third would give up on a 15-mile trek. The men were wiser; there was little standing up like snipe for the sniper. The men were bettereducated; said one sergeant to another: "I ran into a most interesting situation today when we encountered an enemy force...