July-August - Air Defense Artillery School

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U \'ou want to know what \'our enlisted men think of \'OU,
~f things in general, this book might help. Serg~nt
rsden is an Engineer. but the book could apply to any arm.
Sterling Sergeant
iE ORDEAL OF SERGEANT S~100T. By Louis Paul.
Kew York: Crown Publishers, 1943. 220 Pages; Illustrated.
$2.00.
Esquire readers will recognize the name-Smoot was a private
Esquire stories for several years before the army got growing
s. In these stories, he is an unwilling sergeant, but a good
. assisted and abetted by Corporals Ortwingle, Smith, and
ler. The fourteen short stories are rather broad burlesque,
at least they skip entirely the tried and true humorous
ations that are no longer considered humor in military
les. l\1r. Paul obviously knows the army and how enlisted
react. This is good light reading, especially welcome after
of books on "\Vhy France Fell" and "How to Keep Peace
the Pacific."
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A British Slant
PS AND JESTS. By Bruce Bairnsfather. New York:
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1943. $2.00.
One hundred and. three Bairnsfather wash drawings, with
rican soldiers and sailors as subjects, make the contents of
book stand head and shoulders above the usual run of
orous military cartoons. Bruce Bairnsfather, creator of Old
, spent some -time. with our troops in Ireland, and he has
ured for posterity the little things that soldiers like to reher
with a smile. The reviewer's favorite depicts Old Bill
self (in Home Guard uniform) leaning against a bar with
American sailor, saying, "I only got one war aim, mate, and
Iis: To make a world unfit for Nazis to live in."
After Retreat
E ARMY FUN BOOK. By Lawrence Lariar. New York:
Crown Publishers, 1943. 477 Pages; Illustrated. $2.00.
Mr. Lariar has collected a varied assortment of puzzles,
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Sea Story
THE ENEMY SEA. By Abraham Polonsky. Boston: Little,
Brown and Company, 1943. 288 Pages; $2.50.
Mr. Polonsky has written a corking good tale of a tanker on
the Gulf-East Coast run, with submarines, American Nazis, a
beautiful red-headed photographer, and a desert island contributing
to as plausible and exciting a story as the reviewer
has read in years. The tanker, with fifth-columns among the
officers, meets the subs, the subs refuel, and action fills the rest
of the book. It is a bit unfortunate that the author had to
clutter up his hne story with an assortment of stilted speeches
decrying fascism-these days fascism is like sin; the few who
are not already against it will not be likely to have their opinions
changed by the labored conversations in the book.
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MANUAL FOR INSTRUCTION IN MILITARY MAPS
AND AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS. By Norman F. Mac-
Lean and Everett C. Olson. New York: Harper and Brothers,
1943. 136 Pages; Index; Illustrated. $1.75.
Based on official manuals, this book is, as the title suggests,
an instructor's manual. It organizes the work of the course,
gives teaching hints, refers to the official manuals for the details,
and all in all, will save an instructor in map and aerial
photograph reading many hours of labor, as well as assisting
him in presenting the work of the course in logical and planned
order. In addition to covering the elements of map reading, it
includes also needed mathematics, compass reading, and explanation
of foreign maps.
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AIR POWER. By the Editors of Look. New York: Duell,
Sloan and Pearce, Inc., 1943. 97 Pages; Illustrated. $2.75.
The men and the planes of the Army Air Force are portrayed
in this picture book, which was produced by the editors of Look
in cooperation with the AAF. Large pages, action pictures, and
a liberal use of color make this a volume for any air enthusiast's
library, and a positive delight for an air-minded teen-ager. All
royalties go to the U. S. Army Air Forces Aid Society.
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