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...Rifle. Sergeant Alfred Clive Hulme, 30-year-old dairy farmer mashed a German force lodged in a schoolhouse by pitching in a grenade. Later he penetrated German lines, killed a mortar crew of four, continued stalking snipers who harassed the British withdrawal until he had 130 in the bag. Sergeant Hulme said last week he got his stalking experience on his farm, tracking a cow that would not turn up at milking time...
...girls who turned out to entertain the boys were San Antonio's Liberty Belles, who have volunteered to bolster morale by acting as dates for lonesome draftees. The Liberty Belles are organized along semimilitary lines; four girls take orders from a corporal, three corporals from a sergeant, five sergeants from a lieutenant. On the ground that few enlisted men, however lonely, would enjoy stepping out with a lieutenant, that rank is limited to older Belles, who mobilize the girls at San Antonio's Municipal Auditorium, whence they are dispatched by bus to the scene of operations: the Army...
...only contempt but disobedience. But the lieutenant who sees his captain or even his colonel staggering out of the bar at the officers' club will have the same feeling toward him as a private would, and at the same time the privates do not seem to distrust their sergeants after they have gone off together on a weekly tear. The very way in which the sergeant is taught to become a real influence over his squad is by living with them, eating with them, and getting to know them as well as he does his own brothers...
...Nazi doctrines, for some perverted reason, has been to knock the props out from under the old Prussian junker army officer caste. Now the private in the Germany army is made to realize that he is the most privileged citizen in the nation and the equal of anyone. The sergeant in the Nazis' army, unlike the civilian farmer or laborer, can rise from his ranks, and he can do it with the same ease as an American private gains his non-com stripes. William Shirer, in "Berlin Diary," tells of visiting the Kiel Navy Base and finding officers...
...Sergeant York (Gary Cooper, Joan Leslie, Margaret Wycherly, Walter Brennan; TIME...