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...Sergeant Shapovalov is (or was) an anti-tank rifleman. "What is a tank?" said he. "I can see it, but it can't see me. My rifle is small and hard to hit, but a tank is big. All you have...
...London's Savoy Hotel a lieutenant of the British Navy introduced himself to a couple of correspondents. "You're Americans, aren't you?" he said. "So'm I. I heard you talking, and I couldn't help coming over." He nodded at an R.A.F. sergeant-pilot, who was banking toward the door, and said: "I'm celebrating tonight, and my friend has had enough...
...Cried Laborite Alfred Edwards in a speech at Leeds: "Libya has been lost on the playing fields of Eton. If Rommel had been born in this country he would by now have been a sergeant - not a field marshal. Our tank divisions in Libya have been directed by cavalry officers, not a man being trained in mechanized warfare. Until recently some of them even insisted on wearing their spurs. This is not a joke...
...gunner," Kelly Albert, was a Detroit boy who had once worked for Ford, had enlisted in the Canadian tank corps, whence he had been AWOL since April. The "sergeant pilot," Robert Poynter, another Detroit boy, had worked for Hudson, had enlisted in Canada in the Polish armed forces in November 1941, but had been taken home by his parents as underage. On his 20th birthday he enlisted again, was honorably discharged. He started to bum around, met Albert. "We had to say something," said "Gunner" Albert...
Heroic highlight of this year's singin' gatherin' was the Ballad of Sergeant York, celebrating the deeds of Tennessee's World War I hero. It was composed by the late Jilson Setters, bristle-bearded fiddler who once sang mountain songs for the King and Queen of England. Sample stanzas...