Word: 103rd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from a Nazi P.O.W. camp and subsequent undercover work with the French Maquis. Among correspondents, the New York Times's Drew Middleton and Australia's Alan Moorehead were the best of the I-witnesses. Among the unit combat histories already published: those of the 24th, 83rd, 84th, 103rd, 104th Divisions...
...Story. Wholly nonpolitical, Children of Yesterday is a history of the 24th Division's Philippine campaign. Other fighting units, among them the 103rd and 84th Divisions, have already been celebrated in combat histories, and doubtless in time every U.S. outfit which saw action in World War II will have a published record of some sort. Some will be of the illustrated souvenir-program type, complete with a frontispiece of the Old Man and his ribbons. Others will tell an earnest, factual, down-to-earth G.I. story-which is what Children of Yesterday sets...
Next day the three survivors-Nelson, Vic Ghezzi and Lloyd Mangrum-played a tight-lipped extra 18-holes, and ended up still tied. They teed off again and it was still touch & go. On the 103rd hole, willowy, wiry ex-G.I. Lloyd Mangrum, 31, of Los Angeles, who had been wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, got hot, began shooting birdies. Not even a thunderstorm just before the finish could cool him. The 108-hole totals: Mangrum 428; Nelson and Ghezzi...
...Philadelphia's great, drafty 103rd Cavalry Armory, a redhaired, freckle-faced youth stood alone. In attendance on him were ten physicians, a psychiatrist, and 70 Army and civilian workers. It was the day after President Truman had, with great reluctance and distaste, signed the emasculated, 45-day draft extension bill, banning the induction of teenagers. Edward Francis Mooney, 21, was the only inductee that day from 16 eastern Pennsylvania counties (pop. 3,000,000) which had once contributed 350 men a day to the armed forces...
...mountain road out of the Alsatian village of Climbach was crawling with German supply trucks. Climbach had to be taken; a task force of infantrymen, tanks and tank destroyers of the 103rd Division set out to do the job. In a scout car, jouncing along at the head of the little column, was Lieut. Charles Thomas, a Negro company commander in the Negro 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion...