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Once the landings were over and consolidated, Allen entered the blackest period of his Army life. The 1st Infantry Division found itself in a situation remark ably similar to that which the ist of World War I faced in early 1918. It was broken up. Its battalions, with those of other divisions, were scattered over a 100-mile defensive front, under British and French command. These arrangements may have been unavoidable at the time, but they graveled Terry Allen. "I blooded them, didn't I?" he would say in aggrievement when he thought of his lost battalions. Finally, fuming...
...March he did get in with his division, intact once more. At Gafsa and El Guettar, on hills held and bloodied by the men of the 1st, Terry Allen and his division did superlatively well (TIME, May 24). After he had taken Gafsa, he was ordered to "hold" the town as a supply base for the British Eighth Army. "But the orders don't say anything about what steps to take to hold it," said Allen with a grin. So he attacked...
...Hundred Thousand Years. Correspondents with Allen at this period discovered a commander whom his prewar acquaintances at home would have hardly recognized. At times he was shy, quiet. He never bragged, in public, of his own division; he never slighted the others. Once, when the 1st Armored Division was late on one of his flanks, Allen said: "I guess they had motor trouble...
...Other divisions, other commanders may have earned equal repute. But in public fame the 1st Infantry Division has only one U.S. rival: the 1st Marine Division under Lieut. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, conqueror of Guadalcanal (TIME, Nov. 2), who last week became the commander of the First Marine Amphibious Corps...
...1st, of course, improved the song with unprintable addenda...