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...must be said that in Vienna U.S. and Red soldiers do not get along well together. Both sides display suspicion and belligerence. Minor altercations, especially at night when the Russians are quick on the trigger, have been frequent, considering the small number of Americans in the city. In addition to language difficulty, the Russians have a definite inferiority complex. Said one officer to a group of correspondents: "You cannot call us ignorant. After all, we captured Berlin and Vienna and we know how to find the best restaurant in town...
Wear & tear use up the stainless steel abrasive nozzles at a rate of four average cavities per nozzle (cost: 1?). Wear & tear on the dentist is also minimal: all he has to do is press a small trigger...
...caliber machine gun pointed into the sky. Private Bertucci picked up a belt of cartridges, carefully threaded it into the gun. He had never been in action, but he knew how to work a machine gun. He lowered the muzzle and, aiming carefully, pressed the trigger. Methodically he swept the 43 tents, from left to right and back again. Screams and strangled shouts came from the tents. Above the screams, Private Bertucci heard an officer shouting at him. A corporal panted up to take Bertucci off the tower...
...Hair-trigger critics might profitably bear in mind that the U.S. forces' real troubles on Okinawa came not from the errors of friends, but from the implacable resistance of a fanatical enemy. Even so, with victory in sight, the Okinawa campaign was almost exactly on its original schedule...
Courage & Cracks. Like Cartoonist Bill Mauldin (another Yank contributor) Reporter Bernstein presents his G.I.s with affection, understanding, some acid humor, no glamor. In foxholes and juke joints these free-&-easy democrats bristle with the sour, witty, aggressively individualistic, trigger-quick cracks that make the U.S. warrior incomprehensible (and therefore frightening) to his enemies. With a keen ear for idiom and a deft hand with dialogue, Reporter Bernstein has successfully put the G.I. gripe down on paper...