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Army & Navy - At Both Ends

"Guts at both ends of the bayonet" is their school motto. A pregraduation demonstration last week at Camp Forrest, Tenn. showed how they lived up to it.

The mud-splashed, helmeted students were picked officers and men from Lieut. General Ben ("Yoo-Hoo") Lear's Second Army. For two weeks they had puffed, sweated and bled through a nerve-racking training course as much like real battle as live bullets and dynamite could make it. They had absorbed a good half of the shocks that unsettle even well-trained soldiers in their first few days of actual battle:...

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