Johnny proposes a solid plan for weight gain.

Links:

1. Servicemen’s Editions of newspapers
2. Xylophones 

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Johnny details the bivouac experience.

Links:

1. C-Rations
2. Foxholes

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Johnny "enjoys" the calm before the storm.

Links:

1. This Is Why We Call A Turkey's Tailbone The Pope's Nose
2. The Parson’s Nose – The Chiddicks Family Tree

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All the fun of basic training! Bivouacs, KP, personal concealment and washing socks. All this, and Johnny makes some bosom buddies.

Links:

• Bivouac
• Army Field Manual 20-3
• Bosom Buddies

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Johnny muses on the hardships of basic training, gets a haircut and explains how to use the coal burning stove.

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Halloween on the Home Front | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

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Basic training is just getting started as Johnny longs for the little pleasures back home.

Links:

FDR Speech on Navy Day:

• Audio - FDR Audio Recordings - FDR Presidential Library & Museum
• Transcript - Election 1944: Address by Roosevelt at Shibe Park, PA (10-27-44) - The TimeGhost Army

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Johnny describes like at camp gearing up for basic training.

Links:

1. Chewing Gum, Candy Bars and Beer
2. Mairzy Doats

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Johnny changes barracks and questions the quality of Army entertainment.

Links:

1. Ration points
2. Sex hygiene films in the army 
3. Newsreel: The Invasion of Italy
4. Black Aces
5. Please – part 1  part 2

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Johnny describes a day in the life of basic training and relates some jokes.

Links:

1. Volkssturm – Volkssturm - Wikipedia
2. Viktor Ullmann - Viktor Ullmann Foundation – "Live in the moment, live in eternity" – Goethe
3. Paul Robeson - This Day in Black History: Oct. 18, 1944 | News | BET
4. Shavetail - Shavetail - True West Magazine

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Johnny arrives at basic training.

Fort Hood - DOD changes Fort Cavazos back to Fort Hood – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder - Who Said “Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder”? | YourDictionary

Benny Carter - Benny Carter - Wikipedia

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