Survive as a World War II Soldier - Chapter 58



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#058

Attack the surrounding area.

This was the advice Kennedy gave her before he left, after coming to New York to meet with MacArthur the last time.

“That’s right. My boyfriend also ran away at first saying he wouldn’t get married.”

“Oh, that guy who ran away to Europe?”

“Ha. Okay. But what can I do since my in-laws cut off my allowance? I have to go.”

It didn’t seem to be of much help, but in the end, my friends were the only people I could talk to and discuss these things with.

When Anna heard Kennedy’s advice, her friends encouraged her, saying that she was not wrong.

“I heard he was an incredibly filial son.”

“Yeah. We always stay together except when we go abroad.”

If it was difficult to attack MacArthur directly, the general opinion among his friends was that he should capture his mother, Mrs. Pinky.

“But isn’t it a little scary?”

“Yeah. Mrs. Pinky is so famous.”

“That’s true, dude. Honestly···.”

When someone said that it would be a bit burdensome to have a mother-in-law as great as Mrs. Pinky, all my married friends nodded their heads.

“So what do you want me to do?”

“What can I do? You only have two sons. Go and cling to me like a daughter.”

“Honestly, your mother made a huge fuss about getting you married.”

“uh.”

Anna’s mother Eleanor was in chaos because she didn’t even have a fiancé even though she was almost twenty-three.

It wasn’t just Mom. The elders of the family were nagging at Anna, Eleanor, and Franklin too.

‘How long are you going to let that girl who talks like that go out there?’

‘That’s right, you’re a reporter and all, you should’ve gotten them married quickly before you got wind of it.’

‘It’s not too late. I···.’

There were some who were genuinely worried about Anna, who was already well past marriageable age, but there were also others who were not.

“I heard that last time, some guy who was your 5th cousin or something pushed a completely ridiculous marriage proposal and it caused a huge uproar?”

“Oh, Mom is really angry…”

Some even hurt her by linking her delayed marriage to her father Franklin’s illness.

“Hey, then how about your mom instead of Mrs. Pinky?”

“huh?”

“Mrs. Pinky is also making a fuss because she wants her son to get married, and your mother is also red-eyed because she wants you to get married.”

“Yeah. Not only is Mrs. Pinky amazing, but your mom is amazing too.”

“If the two of you meet, you might be standing at the wedding hall in the meantime.”

“Is that so?”

Anna, who had gained courage from her friends’ words, naturally tried to talk to her mother, Eleanor, first.

“Who? MacArthur? Ha, you’re crazy.”

But contrary to her friends’ and Anna’s expectations, Eleanor’s reaction was cynical.

“I should have stopped you a long time ago when you were wandering around saying things like you were a reporter or something.”

Eleanor was astonished and asked how they could put an old maid like her next to a fine gentleman like MacArthur.

“mom.”

“Don’t you dare say anything to your father.”

Eleanor threatened Anna, saying that MacArthur was an important connection to her father’s future and that she would not forgive her if she caused any inconvenience to their relationship.

“And if you had the heart, you should have told me sooner.”

Anna’s eyes welled up with tears as she heard the words, “If you had told me when you were younger and more valuable, I wouldn’t have been able to get the words out.”

“When did Mom ever care about me?”

“Anna.”

Although she pretended not to, Eleanor was a woman with great ambitions, just like her husband, Roosevelt.

No, it was ambition that sustained her life after the betrayal of her once beloved husband, Roosevelt.

Although she separated from her husband who had betrayed her, Eleanor did not divorce him and pretended to have a harmonious family on the outside, filling her broken heart with other desires.

‘No matter what you do, in the end, Mrs. Roosevelt is me.’

That was why she, who had been quietly and seemingly helping out at home, began to gradually join her husband Roosevelt in external events using his health as an excuse.

When her husband Roosevelt became the governor of New York, she became the governor’s wife and a true mistress of New York society.

‘If he becomes president in the future…’

To her, who lived with grand dreams, the friendship between her husband and MacArthur was more important than her daughter’s first love.

“And weren’t you the one who said that it was your life, so you could live it however you wanted and that I shouldn’t interfere unnecessarily?”

“Yes, I understand.”

Anna left Eleanor’s mansion, crying sadly, and walked aimlessly.

And when I came to my senses···.

‘Why did you come here, you idiot?’

It was in front of MacArthur’s house.

Even if I go in, I won’t be able to see MacArthur, who is in Washington.

No, how am I supposed to meet MacArthur like this?

Anna, who had been hesitating in front of the house for a while, soon clenched her fists as if she had made up her mind.

‘Yeah, you live once, not twice? They say that the brave get the handsome guy.’

Anna caught a taxi and headed to a nearby costume shop.

I couldn’t see Mrs. Pinky in this state.

##

Ding dong.

Mrs. Pinky narrowed her eyes at Anna Roosevelt’s words that she had stopped by to congratulate her on hearing the good news.

‘Hmm.’

I didn’t really like it.

First of all, I didn’t like the idea of ​​doing a lot of outside work, such as being a reporter or doing foundation work.

She knows because she tried it.

Being the wife of a soldier, especially a high-ranking officer, meant that there was a lot to do at home.

It’s not like I didn’t like it enough to throw it away right away.

Although he is a bit older, he has distinct features and white skin.

With just a little bit of care and dressing up, she was a beauty that would make any man’s eyes turn.

and,

‘Roosevelt···.’

Although he was a Democrat, not a Republican…

‘Eleanor’s uncle Theodore was a Republican, wasn’t he?’

Well, isn’t this a world where Republicans and Democrats coexist even within the same household?

It seemed better to focus on the fact that he is the current governor of New York.

Mrs. Pinky, who had been calculating the various conditions in an instant, opened her mouth with a bright smile.

“A fine lady like you doesn’t even have a fiancé yet… I guess young men these days are just looking around.”

At Mrs. Pinky’s words, Anna blushed and lowered her head in embarrassment.

“Oh, no.”

“You work for our Doug’s foundation?”

“Yes. I’m trying to be helpful to the president…”

Mrs. Pinky couldn’t help but laugh at Anna’s shy smile as she said she wasn’t sure if she was doing well.

‘Oh, oh, oh. What a reckless girl.’

I could tell right away that the young lady in front of me was after my son.

Mrs. Pinky was just as delighted when she heard the news that her son Douglas had become Army Chief of Staff.

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“The application for discharge came in like this?”

“Yes. What should I do?”

It wasn’t so bad that he was chosen by Hoover to become Army Chief of Staff.

However, no matter how strong the recommendation was from former Chief of Staff Summerall, it did not go down well with the tight-fisted Army brass.

Because of this, there was a surge in applications for early discharge, saying that they could not take orders from their young juniors.

Of course, on the surface, he said it was to pave the way for capable juniors like President Summerall and to help them enjoy a comfortable and relaxing retirement life as soon as possible…

“I don’t like standing on top of things.”

“Well, isn’t that obvious?”

“Yes. How impressive is the president’s record?”

Eisenhower and Bradley responded that it was only natural.

“I see? Anyway, thanks to you, it worked out well.”

If you don’t go and hold out, you’ll only be a nuisance to me while I’m working, so it couldn’t be better than you saying you’ll just resign and leave.

It was already April.

I don’t know exactly what month and day Black Tuesday, the start of the Great Depression, was, but I knew it was in the fall.

So, I have about half a year left.

We had to prepare as much as we could before the Great Depression hit and all our money dried up.

“First, let’s try to reduce the budget as much as possible.”

“All right.”

The first of these was, of course, securing a budget.

It was a time of isolationism, where people thought that war was someone else’s story and that we should just eat well and live well in this comfortable and peaceful America.

The economy was booming, but the military still stood under the sword of disarmament.

The only silver lining was that Hoover, who had just taken office, was still in power, and his proudest mascot, MacArthur, was still in good standing.

Thanks to that, we were able to somehow squeeze out some of the budget even in the chilling atmosphere of disarmament…

“There are just too many hungry little kids crying with their mouths open.”

There were so many things I had to do and wanted to do, but I didn’t have enough money and time.

The problem was that I wasn’t the only one who felt short on money and time.

“Senior!!!”

The one who came running excitedly without being called was none other than Patton.

“Now is the time to finally unfold the bright future we’ve been dreaming of. You said you kicked out all the damn old farts, right?”

“Who kicks out the one who gets kicked out?”

“As soon as you became the president, you ran away, saying, ‘Oh, it’s hot.’”

Patton, who had said something that could be easily misunderstood if heard, continued to call for armor.

So, Summerall, the cool senior who coolly left after handing over the position of Chief of Staff to me, was a person with a broad perspective.

Unlike the idiots who preached the supremacy of infantry despite having seen the lessons of World War I with their own eyes, Summerall knew that tanks would be the main force on future battlefields.

He organized mechanized units and also promoted the creation of mobile units organically integrating tanks, artillery, engineers, and logistics units.

“Isn’t it enough to just continue doing this?”

“This time, let’s do it on a grand scale···.”

Patton and other tank-crazy guys took this opportunity to call for the mechanization of the entire army.

Patton wasn’t the only one squeaking.

“Pan American Airlines is finding its feet, but…”

While I was busy in the Philippines and later working day and night to raise America’s profile in the Olympics, Henry Arnold, in charge of the Army Air Corps, was not idle either.

Arnold, along with his adjutant Carl Spaatz, founded Pan American, a giant airline that would dominate the skies of the world in the second half of the 20th century.

The reason the two men were actively involved in the creation of the airline was, of course, security issues.

As aviation technology developed rapidly, the entire world was experiencing an aviation industry boom.

“Many aircraft companies are continuously developing new technologies. As you know, aircraft performance is the most important factor in air combat.”

As I mentioned before, as airlines were established here and there, aircraft manufacturers that sold to those airlines also began to sprout up like mushrooms.

“As the president said, competition among manufacturers to develop better aircraft is leading to technological development. However, there is a difference between civil aircraft and military aircraft···.”

Unlike civil aircraft that can be sold to airlines to generate profits, military aircraft required management and supervision from the development stage.

Of course, appropriate investment was essential.

If you interfere without paying anyone, who will listen to you?

“Okay.”

The Great Depression was a great depression, but no, because we were facing a great depression, we had to properly determine the direction of new technologies, including tanks and airplanes.

Wouldn’t that reduce the amount of time and money wasted on foolish endeavors during the Great Depression that has lasted nearly a decade?

“Throw away that stupid multi-turret.”

“yes?”

“If you give soldiers dual pistols, will their fighting power increase?”

“!”

“There is nothing cheap and good in the world.”

There is a stupid idea that we should put machine guns on tanks instead of main guns because they are cheap.

While rejecting the foolish idea of ​​mounting multiple cannons like a naval battleship,

“It’s still a new technology, so there’s no proof…”

“I will take responsibility.”

“yes?”

“I’ll take responsibility. Why don’t you like it?”

Other technology areas that are being dug up are also neatly organized.

and···.

“Business?”

“Is that possible?”

Time to sow the seeds