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Under a bright California sky, the grey transport General George M. Randall nosed into the cluttered estuary of Oakland. Aboard her last week were some 1,500 officers and men of the 1st Marine Division, home from Korea for a 30-day leave.* In her hold were the bodies of 52 men, the first of the dead to be brought back from Korea. They included men of all services, ranging in rank from private to major general (Bryant E. Moore, who had commanded the IX Corps...
...faces of the men lining the transport's rail showed little emotion. They puffed cigarettes and stared at shoreside railroad cars loaded with jeeps, at fireboats squirting a welcome. There was no mood of wild celebration. "We figure we'll have to go back there," said Pfc. George Miller, of Brooklyn. All Corporal Raymond Herren wanted was to get back to Alton, Ill. and see his wife and kids. "The boy, Paul, I've never seen," remarked Herren. "He was born in October. You miss things besides drinking and helling around. You just want to see green...
Front-line soldiers have long argued that the Army could stop worrying about its manpower reserves if it just cashed in a few of its rear-echelon goldbricks. Last week Army Secretary Frank Pace, an ex-major in the Air Transport Command, came to the same conclusion. On his orders to squeeze every available combat soldier out of the 1,300,000 men in uniform, the Army told all units to cut their nonfighting personnel by a flat...
...from Double-Your-Money Hatch. He helped set up reconstruction centers in Baroda and Hyderabad, preached the twin gospel of literacy and progress for hundreds of miles. In 1940, Hatch and his family returned to the U.S. for a vacation. When the war made it doubtful that he could transport the family to India again, he carried on his work in Mexico. Last year he went back to India...
Following the last war, the non-scheduled airlines advertised that they were the returning veterans who were in the air transport business to give the customer a break; and that they would crack the monopolies of the "horrible monster airlines." However, American Airlines now employs three times the number of veterans that all the independent lines combined have employed...