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Freshman Ebby Dane placed 27th in the amateur division and 30th in the open class in the Eastern Amateur Ski Association's Giant Slalom Championships held yesterday at Mad River Glen, Vermont...
Last week the island's commander, Colonel Maurice J. Fitzgerald, ordered the combat-famed U.S. 27th (Wolfhound) Regiment, which now guards Koje, to screen Compound 62 and give the non-Communists a chance to get out. At 5:30 a.m., a battalion of Wolfhounds under Major John J. Klein of Houston, Texas, moved in hoping to catch the prisoners asleep. But prisoner sentinels gave the alarm...
Major General George Randolph Pearkes, the Progressive Conservative Party's parliamentary military critic, found plenty to criticize on a recent visit to Canada's 27th Infantry Brigade in Western Germany. Back home in Victoria, B.C. last week, he made a nationwide broadcast assailing Canada's decision to send infantrymen instead of armored units to the defense of Western Europe...
Fourteen hundred men of Canada's 27th Infantry Brigade filed down a gangplank at Rotterdam one morning last week and paraded through a cold drizzle to the Stadhuis (city hall). There, Defense Minister Brooke Claxton formally turned the brigade over to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Said Ike: "I know you will be worthy representatives of your great country in this endeavor, which is to secure the peace...
...troops were the second contingent of the 27th to arrive; the rest of the 6,500 will reach the brigade base at Hanover, West Germany, by mid-December. Seizing the chance to tell Europeans about Canada's growing NATO role, Claxton announced plans...