Word: 1st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remember the valiant 1st Platoon softball team that singed the grass of Soldiers Field with such scintillation all summer? Sad to relate, it's practically non-existent now. No less than 5 members of that intrepid crew got axed by the academic department, which, with an eye to niceties, neatly amputated the battery and outfield. Feeling that it would look silly with just the infield out there, the team has broken up and is now in the process of becoming stronger and stronger as its exploits pass from one tongue to another. A month from now you'll hear about...
...Germans had halted their long retreat at the rocky hilltop town of Troina. Used to driving the enemy out of one position after another, Major General Terry Allen's 1st Division sent one combat team against the town. The Germans ate it up with machine-gun fire and drove it back. Reserves were thrown in; for the first time in Sicily, the whole 1st Division was engaged at once. Every night the Americans advanced, every morning the Germans counterattacked, driving the Americans back down the slopes before Troina. On the evening of the fifth day A.P.'s Donald...
...1st Platoon of Company "B" defeated the 2nd Platoon Friday in a twilight seven-inning softball game by the score of 9-5. Lt. Ivan Miller tossed for the victors and Lt. Francis T. Sharkey for the opponents. The teams were managed respectively by Lts. Warren F. Millius and Henry N. Schoenfield. Highlighting the game were the frequent altercations that developed between the umpire, Lt. Joe Redding, and Lt. Sharkey pitcher for the 2nd Platoon. Umpire players and spectators were unperturbed by the pitcher's picturesque words and actions, however, for it was common knowledge that Lt. Sharkey...
Diplomas will be awarded by the Commanding Officer of the Chaplain School, Colonel William D. Cleary, who will give one diploma to each of the 16 section leaders of the class in behalf of the members of his section. Chaplain (1st Lieutenant) Lester P. White will offer the Invocation and Chaplain (Major) Hal C. Keller will pronounce the blessing. Music will be provided by the 241st Coast Artillery band...
...were two towns in central Sicily that the Allies had to take on their march toward the Germans' last line around Mt. Etna. Canadians, between the British at Catania and Americans on the left, took Agira. U.S. troops, apparently Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen's 1st Infantry Division (see col. 3), took Nicosia. The only road to that town lay through a deep mountain trough, fortified by the Germans, and past German-held hills. With Captain Edward Wozenski and his company, when they took one of these hills, was TIME Correspondent John Hersey. He cabled...