KEEN QUESTIONERS
$ WAYS OF AMERICAN TROOPS. “To someone from the British Army these American boys seemed oddly argumentative. They kept asking why. They were full of theories which they were anxious to communicate to anyone, preferably a general. They wanted to know why they had been put behind this particular tree —wouldn’t that one over there be better cover. Wouldn’t it be better if they approached from the right flank instead of from the left, and so on. I don’t know what my platoon sergeant, Buller, would have thought of all this. He was not in favour of back answers. But your Sergeant White didn’t seem to mind. And incidentally this barrage of criticism and questions makes a pretty good test of a sergeant’s quality. He has to have convincing answers to maintain his authority.”—“Uncle Sam’s Army,” a topical talk by Captain Anthony Cotterell in the 8.8. C. North American Service).
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1943, Page 4
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