Word: sergeanting
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...White, face!" should the drill sergeant, exasperated because Pvt, Huey, H.F., was dreaming of other matters in the rear rank...
...calling him. For twelve hours he whooped and hollered and kicked at rats. Next morning he stripped off his long woolen underwear, touched a match to it. The smudge in the well got so thick he had to don his gas mask. Because smoking was strictly forbidden, an angry sergeant soon discovered him, rescued Private Sauter...
...picture is Flight Sergeant MacPherson. the shock-haired, strong-nosed little Scotsman, one of the R.A.F. 's best navigators. His importance to the picture is twofold. He represents the unheadlined heroes of the air, the gunners, bombardiers, radio operators, grease-monkeys, whose functions appear for the first time in Target in their true perspective: fully as exciting and significant as the pilots...
...Bayonet. Sergeant John Daniel Hinton, onetime truck driver, now a prisoner in Germany, made V.C. history. For the first time the award was granted on the basis of accounts of Sergeant Hinton's exploits sent to friends by his fellow prisoners...
...Kalamai, Greece, a German column sent New Zealand troops scurrying for cover. Sergeant Hinton refused the "take cover" order, yelled: "To hell with this! Who'll come with me?" He charged the nearest gun, which fired and missed him. One German gun crew retreated to two houses. At each house in turn, Sergeant Hinton smashed a window with his bayonet, hopped in, dispatched the Germans...