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...Third Army front in France, soldiers of the 35th Infantry Division eyed a bleak chateau in no man's land and waited for night to fall. There were children in the house-81 of them, by best reports-and they had to be taken...
After dark the 35th's volunteer "baby patrol"-a French captain, an American officer and ten G.I.s-slipped across the line, sloshed across 1,000 yards of rainswept marsh, crept into the house...
Eddie Cantor, who has been rolling his banjo eyes (see p. 54) at wounded servicemen on the "Purple Heart Circuit" for three months, was awarded a Purple Heart scroll at a testimonial dinner marking his 35th anniversary in show business...
...always calls Marshall "General.") When Flicker set his mind on a soldier's career, none of the Republican Congressmen was willing to recommend the son of a stout Democrat for West Point. So George left for Virginia Military Institute. At the end of his plebe year, he ranked 35th; (when he was appointed Chief of Staff in 1939, he was 30th in rank). But from the very first year until he graduated (in 1901), George was always senior officer of his class. He always had one of the most American of virtues - a steady capacity for growth. The boys...
...flyer named Pokryshkin roared head on at a slim-bodied Junkers, shot upward, swerved right, then banked sharply, with his guns blazing. The German bomber fluttered down, trailing smoke. At a Red Air Force headquarters, a 35th digit was marked against the name of Major Alexander Pokryshkin. Across the breadth of Russia, men & women grinned and muttered: "Molodets paren"-atta boy. For to them, Alexander Pokryshkin is one of the war's top air heroes...