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The casualty rate for Marine infantry officers in such a situation runs between 60 and 75 percent killed or wounded, owing to the Marine tradition of officers hitting the beach first: you’re either a casualty and replaced or you’re the ...more
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“Whoever finds this wreck—please mail these letters for us. We waited so long for you—where were you? Our daily log is here for you to see in the folded Airman’s Guide.”
Ross Nixon, Finding Carla: The Story that Forever Changed Aviation Search and Rescue

Gerry Souter
“The Ghost Army’s deception equipment was recycled to be used in the army’s “Aggressor Force” training program. It was a hypothetical enemy to train against, with the unstated goal of fighting communism. As for the artists, actors, technicians, magicians and designers of the Ghost Army, they kept silent about their war experiences because the records were still classified Top Secret. Some stayed in the military to continue their careers, while most returned to civilian life faced with answering the question, “What did you do in the war, daddy?” They could reply with an ETO travelogue of impressive adventures without ever mentioning how they had a personal hand in conning Adolf Hitler.”
Gerry Souter, The Ghost Army: Conning the Third Reich

David Halberstam
“Certain differences were most definitely not welcomed in Levittown, however. Blacks could not buy in—a Levitt policy that lasted for two decades, long after the nation began legally trying to rid itself of lawful segregation. “The Negroes in America are trying to do in 400 years what the Jews in the world have not wholly accomplished in 600 years. As a Jew I have no room in my mind or heart for racial prejudice. But ... I have come to know that if we sell one house to a Negro family, then 90 or 95 percent of our white customers will not buy into the community. That is their attitude, not ours....”
David Halberstam, The Fifties

“Why didn’t they make a toboggan out of airplane parts? Why didn’t they lay out some sort of signal? It’s easy for us, warm and dry and in no pain, to look at a map and wonder why three cold, hurt, starving people, lost on a mountainside in the snow didn’t do certain things.”
Ross Nixon, Finding Carla: The Story that Forever Changed Aviation Search and Rescue

David Halberstam
“One of their best customers was an executive at Texaco, and one day Harry Ferkauf casually asked him about the possibility of a summer job for his son. “Harry, you know how I feel about you and Gene,” the man replied, “but Texaco doesn’t hire Jews.” From that day Gene Ferkauf knew that if he was to be a success, he would have to do it on his own; the world’s great companies were not interested in the likes of him.”
David Halberstam, The Fifties

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