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$9 1942 magazine articles US Army Quartermaster, supplies in Hubbards, Nova Scotia for sale

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Selling are two magazine articles from 1942: US Army Quartermaster andpaintings of Troops on the Move Title: Q M, the Fighting Storekeeper Author: Frederick Simpich Quoting the 1st page “’QM’ the Army calls him. That's short for Quartermaster General. He feeds, clothes, hauls, and comforts the whole Army, shooting with 1 hand and working with the other. In all the long, exciting annals of our Army, from Valley Forge to Bataan, no force has played a more important role than the Quartermaster Corps. Like the work of Army doctors, however, its great and gallant deeds are often unsung. Only now info from Bataan trickle out. With what grim genius those fighting quartermasters scoured that impoverished peninsula for food! As famine spread, they threshed rice from peasant fields and made salt from sea water. They killed 1st their carabaos, or work buffaloes, then they slaughtered their own horses and mules that hungry soldiers might fight on. Many, sticking grimly to their posts, died when bombs fell on their makeshift jungle shops. The whole Nation is justly proud of that heroic defense. It will live in Army history, along with memories of the Alamo and of Custer's Last Stand. An epic tale, truly, is this stirring story of the Army quartermasters-a story as epic and glamorous as any tale of high adventure in submarines or of fighting through roaring, smoke-filled skies. The grim, significant thought is, we would lose this war, instantly, but for the QM. Without his vast ambidextrous corps of worker-fighter men not a wheel could turn. From lack of gas, which the QM handles, not a tank could run or a plane fly. But for the QM's care and skill in planning the movement of supplies, whole army divisions might starve, freeze, or die of thirst. Not even an army band could play to cheer up the boys, without the QM's help; no mule's tail could be shaved, no soldier could buy an all-day sucker, or find paper, pen, and a place to sit down and write a letter home. Nobody on earth, in truth, has so many different jobs as the QM. He's the world's biggest purchasing agent, exporter, and delivery boy. His colossal depot warehouses make the big mail-order houses look like crossroads country stores. He's the world's biggest coat-and-suit man, chain-store operator, tobacco salesman, truck and transfer man; biggest tailor, tentmaker, laundry-man, musician, radio- and shoe-repair man; biggest cook and baker-he can turn out 3,000,000 loaves of bread a day! How can you bake bread in fox holes, under fire on the battlefield? That's just 1 QM riddle out of thousands. That's what Maj. Gen. Edmund B. Gregory, Quartermaster General of the Army, was quickly deciding when I saw him last. When he isn't popping up unannounced in some training camp to see how QM work is going, or walking unexpectedly into a giant factory that has a contract to make him 10,000,000 shirts, he's busy in a seething new Army building down on Buzzard Point, Washington, D. C. Husky, hardworking "Pope" Gregory is called the world's biggest, busiest business man. But because he is a good executive, who knows how to share work and authority with subordinates, he doesn't act busy when you call upon him. But don't let that smiling, leisurely manner fool you. Under it lie the alertness of an Indian scout, the latent muscular power of…” 7” x 10”; 24 pages, 22 B&W images Title: Painting the Army on Maneuvers Paintings by: Arthur Beaumont 2 pages of text, plus small captions. 7” x 10”; 18 pages, 16 color paintings of assorted US Army personnel on the move. These are pages from an actual 1942 magazine. No reprints or copies.42K1 Please note the flat-rate shipping for my advertising pages. This is 1 price for ANY NUMBER of ads, mailed flat (with cardstock stiffeners) in 1 envelope. If you are buying more than one ad (or multiple ad lot), please don’t pay until you have finished shopping. eBay should combine sales automatically. If they don’t, don’t pay until I send the combined invoice. Click Here To Visit My eBay Store: busybeas books and ads5000+ advertisement pagesnon-fiction bookscraft & hobby items Anything I find that looks interesting! Please see my store for more goodies, books and magazines. I’ll combine wins to save on postage. Thanks For Looking! Luke 12: 15 Note to CANADIAN purchasers: Since 2007 I've only been charging 5% GST on purchases. Thanks to a recent CRA audit I must change to the full GST/HST charge. Different provinces have different rates, though most are just 5%. My GST/HST number is 84416 2784 RT0001 Powered by eBay Turbo Lister


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