You can’t feed them ice cream and soda pop all day long and make killers out of them. JE: What did they teach you in boot camp? RC: They taught us how to do close-order drill. That’s where they line you up and teach you how to make a right face and a left face and a ...
France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the U.S. signed the Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament (commonly referred to as theLondon Naval Treaty) on April 22, 1930, to regulate submarine warfare and limit the building of naval ships. The terms of the treaty we...
Only a few miles outside of town, lines of women and children begged for black-market food, but here shop windows were full of fruit, cakes and bread. Young couples strolled arm in arm. Even ice cream vendors were doing a brisk trade. Bari was a Mediterranean service hub, supplying the...
These cups and plates were used Aboard Communist Chinese Navy Surface Ships, Submarines, Naval Aviation and Naval Bases in the North China Sea Fleet, East China Sea Fleet and South China Sea Fleets! Perhaps some of you "China Sailors" sailing on Westpac cruises or stationed out of Japan and...
They couldn't make ice cream fast enough to give us every day, but we got ice cream every other day. In the 29 days between when we were picked up and got to Manila I put on thirty pounds. RETURN TO THE USA, NOVEMBER 1945. I flew back to the states from there on a PBM gull...
In the southwest Pacific, internal military memos reveal that the ante had to be upped to “three days leave and some ice cream” to coax soldiers to bring in the Japanese prisoners. The WWII U.S. Military Intelligence Service SOLDIER'S GUIDE TO THE JAPANESE ARMY, Special Series No. 27,...