Army & Navy - MORALE: Lesson in English

Homesick U.S. fighting men are guardedly skeptical about the plan to give them furloughs home after they have served a certain period overseas. So far, it has been little more than a plan. But the plan was very much on the minds of a pair of war-weary marines who recently captured a Jap, whole and fairly hearty.

Setting their man down between them, they gave him several hours' intensive coaching in English, then turned him over to an Intelligence officer for the routine interview.

"You speak any English?" the officer asked. Replied the Jap with appropriate eagerness: "Where I stand on rotation...

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