Army & Navy: Doughboy’s Dream

While it was still dark on Sunday morning, members of Company B, 27th Tank Battalion at Camp Campbell, Ky. were awakened into a dream. No bugle but a little musical bell sounded reveille in the barracks. With proper but unprecedented politeness, mess attendants stepped up to the bunks and said: “Here’s the menu; will you have breakfast in bed?”

The startled soldiers stopped pinching themselves when their commander, Captain Kenneth F. Maxcy Jr. told them it was no cruel gag. It was their reward for a crack job in tank crew gunnery.

The breakfast was strictly G.I., except for a choice of eggs “up, over or scrambled.” But history had been made, anyhow.