Word: 104th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...welcome George L. Howe, 94, as he passed through town on a cross-country bicycle tour. In Germiston, South Africa, Peter Pringle, 118, explained why he had shaved off his beard: it made him "feel too old." In Bristol, England, Ada Ramsbotham took the occasion of her 104th birthday to reveal the secret of her longevity: "I never had a husband...
...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...
Under dashing Major General Terry Allen (now commander of the crack 104th Timberwolf Division), the ist took Oran and fought across Algeria. It ran into its first hard going in Tunisia, and learned there the lesson all fighting men learn: that the last touch of fighting polish is won only in battle against a stubborn...
...Armored Division and 104th Infantry ("Timberwolves") moved in, a church bell rang crazily, not in joy but high and loose-lipped like the laughter of a hysterical woman. A mud-stained veteran stared with dazed eyes at the desolation about him murmuring over and over, "Ain't it awful! Ain't it awful!" Silent Rubble. In most districts not one street was untouched, not a single house undamaged. The outer areas of the city were 85% destroyed, the center 95% rubble. TIME Correspondent Sidney Olson, who went in with the first troops, cabled: "The first impression was that...
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, inspecting U.S. forces now under his command (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), visited the U.S. 104th Infantry Division, commanded by battlewise Major General Terry Allen, expressed admiration for the timber-wolfhead insigne worn by the 104th. Allen promptly ripped off his shoulder patch, gave it to besweatered, bereted Monty...