The Chieftain's Random Musings Thread

The_Chieftain: You remember that old joke about the Frenchman asking for a passport of an american, and the American saying last time he arrived in France was 1944 and he didn't need a passport?   Document from HQ Army Ground Forces, directed to Chief of Staff AGF: M14 14 1942   "Colonel Bolling states that the movement of the Armored Force crews for North Africa is now delayed due to passports."   Hand-writen note at the bottom by CoS: "I asked C/E to phone C/S WD and see if head could not be applied to G-2 to let the men go without passports. He got action. Men are to assemble Miami and if passports are required a rep of State Dept will go there and issue them"   (These are presumably the crews who fought with the British Army for experience)