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Duckworth's simple chant was elaborated on by Army drill sergeants and their trainees, and the practice of creating elaborate marching chants spread to the Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy. A musical version of the chant was recorded by Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra (Voc.: Vaughn Monroe & Chorus in New York City) on March 7, 1951
Mark Warnow (April 10, 1900 – October 17, 1949) was an American violinist and orchestra conductor, who performed on the radio in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the older brother of composer and bandleader Raymond Scott, born Harry Warnow, and is credited with steering his younger brother into a career in music.
Vaughn Wilton Monroe (October 7, 1911 – May 21, 1973) [1] was an American baritone singer, trumpeter and big band leader who was most popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for recording and another for radio performance.
Duckworth, a former Army National Guard member, lost both legs and partial use of her right arm during the Iraq War in 2004 after a rocket-propelled grenade struck her helicopter.
Duckworth, who was born in 1924 in Washington County, Georgia, would have been familiar with the use of work chants sung for all kinds of agricultural work. He was also the same generation of the gandy dancers who used chants to line track. At the time he was drafted to serve in WW II, Duckworth was working in a sawmill.
Ladda Tammy Duckworth [3] (born March 12, 1968) is an American politician and retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel serving as the junior United States senator from Illinois since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party , she represented Illinois's 8th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2017.
Yanks Go Home is a British sitcom about U.S. Army Air Forcemen stationed in Lancashire, England in the Second World War.It was produced and directed by Eric Prytherch for Granada Television and broadcast on ITV between 1976 and 1977.
After Army went up 17-3 following a fumble return for touchdown in the fourth quarter, it appeared Navy was sunk. But the Midshipmen responded with a seven-play, 59-yard drive to make it a one ...