ABSTRACT
about a thousand Gis assigned to the Army’s Advanced Specialized Training Program (ASTP) arrived on the Illinois campus in the fall of 1943, replacing some of the male students who had left school for military service. The ASTPs were draftees who had obtained very high scores on the Army General Classification Test. They were sent back to school to study science, engineering, foreign languages, and other subjects the Army had declared useful for the war. ASTPs did not attend regular classes, but took specially designed, intensive courses, to which they marched in military formation along the broadwalk, calling out “hup-two-three-four, hup” to keep in step.
