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...battle had barely ended, many U.S. citizens last week were seeing for themselves a lot of what had happened at Aachen. For the excellent photographic coverage of the First Army campaign in newspapers and newsreels, most of the credit belonged to the small, brave group of men comprising the 165th Signal Photography Company...
Laden with assorted cameras, the Signal Corps G.I.s of the 165th this week were again pressing close to the front, ducking fire with the infantry. As usual, their twofold mission was: 1) to bring back news pictures of U.S. troops in action; 2) to record as many battle details as possible for the War Department archives. Like scores of similar companies on other battlefronts, they had had a high proportion of casualties (seven dead, 14 wounded, three captured out of 62).* But their work had paid off by helping to make the battles of World War II the best understood...
Despite such setbacks, the 165th established a high record of battle performance from its start. Chiefly responsible for its early record was the company commander, Captain Herman V. Hall, who lost a leg on the Normandy beachhead. When he was evacuated to England on the night of Dday. Captain Hall, mindful of his job, took back the outfit's negatives for speedy distribution...
...Lord Rosebery's Ocean Swell, a three-year-old, 28-to-1 shot; the 165th running of the English Derby, held in spite of the invasion and enemy "robot bombers," over the grassy, up-&-down Suffolk Stakes course at Newmarket. The crowd of 10,000 was less than one-fortieth the size of the last peacetime meeting...
From days immemorial the tawny Gil-bertese have chanted their folk sagas. Last week New York Timesman Robert Trumbull recorded one that "chanters yet unborn will sing"-the story of the U.S. 165th Infantry and the bathing girls of Makin Atoll...