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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
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.
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.
Tarmey was born in Ardwick, Manchester, Lancashire.Shortly after his birth, he moved with his family to live in Bradford, Manchester, where he was also educated.Following the death of his father William in 1944 [2] whilst driving an ambulance at the Battle of Arnhem during the Second World War, [3] his mother Lilian remarried, to Robert Cleworth. [4]
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. She has credited ...
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.
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.
The five young men go through Marine Corps boot camp together. The training is dehumanizing and brutal, designed to make them think and act as a unified team. Sergeant Loyce and Staff Sergeant Aquilla use a combination of extreme training, brute force, and their own combat experience to teach the recruits.