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Harry Sacks, the Crimson's high scoring sophomore, avenged the loss slightly, as he broke Tony Lavelli's league free throw record. Sacks scored his 101st of the season at 19:35 of the second half. Lavelli's mark...
...taught French and Spanish. Later spent nearly two years in Tokyo learning Japanese. Went through the Command and General Staff School and the Army War College. In 1942, as a colonel, he was assigned to help organize the Army's first airborne divisions, the 82nd and the 101st...
...other agent or emissary to undertake during the war," Taylor slipped through German lines into Rome for armistice negotiations with Italian Premier Pietro Badoglio. For 24 hours, wearing a U.S. uniform, he went about his mission in Rome under the noses of the Germans. Promoted to command of the 101st Airborne Division, he parachuted into the Cotentin Peninsula with his troops the night before Dday, thereby becoming the first U.S. general officer to fight France in World War II. Made his second combat jump with the 101st when it invaded Holland, where Taylor was wounded. Was back in Washington...
...second time West Pointer Michaelis had won a temporary eagle. In World War II, he jumped with the 502nd Parachute Infantry of the 101st Division on the Normandy beachhead, took command when his superior was killed, won battlefield promotion to colonel. He was wounded twice in Holland, but managed to leave the hospital in time for the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, he was aide to Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower. On leaving the Pentagon, Ike wrote Mike how proud he had been to "have had as aide a sterling young combat officer...
...Army reactivated the 101st Airborne ("Screaming Eagles") Division, wartime heroes of Bastogne, as a training cadre for new recruits, started intensive training of the first 60,000 men in its enlisted reserve...