Word: 41st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger's Eighth Army, busy winning back the Philippine Islands south of Luzon, found time for an errand of mercy. Troops of Major General Jens A. Doe's 41st Division landed on tiny Culion island, just north of Palawan, to bring freedom, food and medical supplies to the ulcerated, miserable inmates of the world's largest leper colony...
...arrival of the troops and the first boatload of relief supplies dramatized what was happening everywhere in the Philippines. Other 41st Division troops landed at Jolo, the old capital of the Sulu sultans, to take complete control of the Sulu Archipelago. Veteran units of the Americal Division hit the beaches at Bohol, between Leyte and Cebu. In southern Luzon enemy resistance collapsed under the blows of XIV Corps troops...
Harding was relieved. MacArthur sent Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger to take command of all the Buna forces, which included the 41st Infantry Division-as green as the 32nd-and units of the 6th and 7th Australians. MacArthur's instructions to Eichelberger: don't come back until Buna is taken. Brigadier General Albert Whitney Waldron, put in command of the 32nd, was wounded. Brigadier General Clovis Byers succeeded him and he was wounded. Buna finally fell...
Gertrude Atherton, taffy-haired, well-rouged, rejuvenated novelist (The Black Oxen, The House of Lee), celebrated her 87th birthday by announcing the completion of her 41st book, Golden Gate Land, a 100,000-word history of her native northern California. She also delivered some birthday thoughts, called the Germans a "nation of fools," declared they should be shown "no mercy." Of the Japanese, she remarked: "Barbarians-they don't belong on this planet...
...Adolf Hitler's Government as from any other. But they did demand that the orders make military, if not political, sense. The suppressed bitterness of many a disgruntled German soldier was summed up last week by 51-year-old Bavarian Lieut. General Edmund Hofmeister, sometime commander of the 41st Tank Corps. Captured by the Russians last fortnight, Hofmeister spoke...