At War44-11-1472One Damn Thing After Another

Words at war. Here's to them. You'll find them in the landing barges in the first wave of every new invasion. They ride the big bombers over Berlin and Tokyo. They jump with a paratrooper, and on the ground, they share the hazard to the front-line soldier.

They are armed with nothing more deadly than a typewriter, and their casualties have been high for their numbers. Tonight it stands at 26th, killed in action. They are the newspaper and radio correspondents of World War II, and this is the story of one of them.

National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with the Council on Books and War Time, presents another program in the widely discussed series, Words at War, dramatizing the most representative books to come out of this great world conflict.

Tonight's book was written by a former reporter for NBC and the Los Angeles Times, Tom Treiner. light-hearted account of his early adventures in covering the war, and Tom trainer gave it a light-hearted title. He called it, One Damn Thing After Another.

And that's just what it was for tall boys-looking Tom trainer when he first set out for the wars. I'm quite play sorry trainer old man but it simply can't be done. But Colonel all I'm asking is this, let me go on this bombing mission. I've talked to the crew and they don't mind quite out of the question trainer. Sorry.

Oh, please, sorry. Trainer, I thought I made it clear you were not to go on that bombing mission. But Colonel, you didn't say positive. Train it. I must ask you to leave this theatre of operations.

Oh, Colonel. I'll have to ask you a credential, sir. A credential? Oh, yeah, sure. Let me see now. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Here's something. Hmm. This is a driver's license. That's right. It's an order, isn't it?