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...troops at the rail paid scant attention; they were in no mood for music and speeches. To welcoming Britons who had expected U.S. capers, a hoary sergeant major explained: "We're just getting mad. We'll wipe...
When they dropped into the Gerrard's Cross police station to report their intentions, they ran into an eccentric Briton, Sergeant Donald Robbie, who whipped out a pistol and backed them against the wall. But, having disillusioned the Sergeant, they spent an agreeable two hours strolling the town. Everywhere they talked snatches of German and their Germanic English. In a workmen's pub the proprietor recognized one of them as a former vacuum-cleaner salesman named Harry Pringle who had sometimes called before the war. Said the proprietor to Harry Pringle: "What are you doing in that getup...
...Sergeant Winthrop Rockefeller got his second lieutenant's bars at Fort Benning. Carter Glass III got his at Illinois' Scott Field...
Correspondent Jacoby reported that hospital corpsmen continually drove their ambulances through fire, evacuating wounded. He named as outstanding examples Captain Ralph L. Rowland of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Technical Sergeant Frederick W. Guth of Whitmore, Calif.; Corporal Ernest W. Crunkleton of Everton, Ark. Last week the ambulance of Driver Calvin E. Latham of Woodland. Calif, was pocked by 24 machine-gun bullets, one of which had tattered the leg of his slacks...
...singled out by name only Lieut. John F. Kinney and Technical Sergeant William J. Hamilton, for their work in patching up the squadron's flying equipment. Of the rest, Major Putnam wrote: "All hands have behaved splendidly and held up in a manner of which the Marine Corps may well tell...