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General Dwight D. Eisenhower, accompanied by Presidential Secretary Stephen Early and rows of high-polished brass, journeyed to a historic World War I battlefield last week to honor the World War II heroes of Bastogne, the 101st Airborne Division. To the 101st went the Army's Distinguished Unit Citation, never before awarded to an entire Army division. (Three Marine divisions have received the Navy's Presidential Unit Citation...
...entertainer who is creating such a multilingual stir, Sergeant Desmond is modesty itself. When he sang for the 101st Airborne Division, his appreciative audience presented him with a complete paratrooper's outfit and honorary membership in the division. Johnny is especially pleased about the G.I. reaction: "I used to be afraid the real soldiers wouldn't like me," he says, "but they don't seem to mind me being a swooner." The band's publicity-minded program director, Warrant Officer Paul Dudley, says with boding triumph: "Sinatra is apt to push; The Creamer just bides...
Born 56 years ago in Weatherford, Tex., son of a Confederate veteran, Simpson entered West Point in 1905. graduated 101st in a class of 103. A classmate (not Patton) says this rank was not by any means due to lack of intelligence, but to insufficient schooling before entrance...
From the Aachen salient to the Third Army's drive into Germany at Saarlautern, the U.S. lines were thinly held by divisions resting from combat. At the last minute, when ground reconnaissance finally picked up traces of a German concentration, the 101st Airborne Division was moved to Bastogne to strengthen the line along the German-Luxembourg frontier...
That was Rundstedt's first upset. The second was the heroic refusal of the 101st Airborne to be overrun at Bastogne. The Americans' northern peg held firm when a regiment of one of the overrun divisions refused to give ground and enabled First Army divisions to the north to wheel in on that flank...