Word: 1st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sonofabitching Kasserine Pass. To Private First Class Michael Scotto di Clementi it was digging a slit trench beside the colonel's tent in an oasis and wondering if anybody remembered Micky Scott of Our Gang comedies. To Major General Terry Allen it was a satisfying pride in his 1st Division and an occasional chance to talk polo with a British major over a cup of tea. To many another soldier it was a grave in a clearing at Bèja, in the Valley of the Medjerda...
...people understand the nature of their accomplishments, and the reasons for their failures. Between March 18 and the end of the campaign last week, our U.S. divisions were almost continuously on the offensive, from Gafsa in the south to the tip of Tunisia at Bizerte. They were the 1st, the 9th and the 34th Infantry and the 1st Armored Division. Now that most restrictions of censorship have been lifted, it is possible to tell something of how each fought...
Gafsa & El Guettar. On the night of March 17-18 General Terry Allen's 1st Division traveled 45 miles by truck to launch a surprise attack on Gafsa at daybreak. Purpose: to establish Gafsa as a supply base for the Eighth Army. The first shell that pitched toward Gafsa that morning opened the campaign that ended at Bizerte and Tunis. It was the 1st Division's first action as a complete division since it landed in Oran in November. So successful was it that the enemy got out of Gafsa without a fight, and three days later...
...details which seem minor in the light of coming events. A half month's pay as Midshipman, and $150 uniform allowance in cash will be paid to all men receiving commission on the 1st. Application for the additional $100 can be filed as soon as the office sets the minimum requirements for the complete uniform "bag." We hope that bridge coats will be excluded from such a list so that most of us will be able to qualify immediately for the much needed additional allowance. Applications for allotments for insurance and dependents can be made ready for filing on June...
...Anti-Aircraft Artillery School Camp Davis, North Carolina, the Statistic office received word of former 1st Greant Carlson's efforts in the "really high" OCS course there, to use the own expression. Carlson says in brief between-classes letter, "we get a brace at dawn and remain there we turn in for a well-earned sleep night." For the benefit of the the "brace" is the exaggerated of rigid attention required of Candidates at many schools where details are incubated...