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...letter of Ted Powers [TIME, July 20], let me give Powers a little scoop concerning the overpublicized Marine Corps. The Marine Corps receives public attention because marines have a peculiar habit of being the best in anything they undertake. If I remember the 27th Army Division correctly, they were the outfit on Saipan that could not keep up with the Marines and whose commanding general, Ralph Smith, was relieved of his command because he couldn't get his men to move forward. As for comparisons between the Army and Marine Corps, the Marine Corps will top the Army...
...Marianas: it might well be subtitled, "How the Navy and Marines won the war without help from the Army and Air Corps." In particular, I bridle at the mention of the 2nd and 4th Divisions storming ashore [on Saipan], etc. No mention is made of the fact that the 27th Infantry Division was called in to bail the Marines out of the mess they got themselves into . . . because they didn't have the wherewithal to secure the beachhead. The 27th was a floating reserve and was not even supposed to have been used . . . but they were diverted to rescue...
...Yankee youth, Colonel Harry M. Ayers, publisher of the Anniston, Ala. Star, last week had a few words of advice: "Come south, young man." Since World War II, Ayers pointed out tat the 27th anniversary of the founding of Wooster School in Danbury, Conn., capital has been pouring into the South. Even so, said Ayers, "the South is still an undeveloped region." Youth, said he, would discover, as Northern industry had, that in the South "competition is not so keen as it is in other regions," and "condiditions are so much better and success much easier...
Sacks has scored 122 for seventh spot. Lionette is 26th with 65 points, and Krinsky 27th with...
Sandbag Castle is a rocky knob on Korea's eastern front held by the U.S. 25th Infantry Division. One day last September, the Reds attacked Sandbag Castle and every man of the 27th (Wolfhound) Regiment was on his toes. Among them: wiry little Corporal Lee ("Korean Joe") Yong...